Obsession with ending poverty is where development is going wrong | Efosa Ojomo

Almost all development projects focus on alleviating poverty rather than creating prosperity. This is a fundamental flawHow can we alleviate extreme poverty? It’s the question that underpins the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), and almost all development projects. Because poverty almost always shows itself as a lack of resources in poor communities – food, safe water, sanitation, education, healthcare – it’s reasonable to theorise that poverty is a resource proble