Description Most literature and many aid efforts concerned with Poverty relief and development function on mathematical assumptions.
Cultural change must precede material changes..
Development work must focus on developing people\'s ideas.
Yet what anyone believes about the building blocks of life will have results; their ideas are like eye glasses that either distort or bring into focus an objective reality.
Both neglect the devastating power of bad ideas based in religion and social customs.
But on the side of the needy, religious and secular efforts see only a material problem.
Some would add a moral component saying that those having more are morally wrong and must have gained their surplus from outright theft or unfair trade.
Those who have more should share with those who have less, thus creating equality.
Description Most literature and many aid efforts concerned with Poverty relief and development function on mathematical assumptions