Last Thursday, I promised to briefly describe all the effective anti-poverty programs that Ms. Rosenberg lists in her Nov 16, New York Times, op-ed “How to Fight Poverty: 8 Programs That Work.”

Here are the first two:

1.) Ms. Rosenberg’s states that universal vaccination is “cost-effective foreign aid at its best:”

“A full course of immunization, including everything in the supply chain, costs only $30. In the last 20 years this campaign has saved 20 million lives. It has given hundreds of millions of children a better start.”

2.) The op-ed also describes programs that help people obtain titles for their land, homes and businesses. These titles become assets, with which people living in poverty can borrow and invest.

From the piece:

“Most people…see only poverty. But Hernando de Soto saw something else - untapped wealth. Mr. De Soto, a Peruvian economist, realized that the world’s poor own trillions of dollars’ worth of assets. But their houses, plots of land and businesses lacked formal title - and so could not be used to do all the things that people in wealthy countries do to turn a little money into a lot of money.”

Read more about immunization and ownership anti-poverty programs here, and check back the ONE Blog in the coming days for the next six programs.

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