Even more profound, can we leverage AIs to fight disease, alleviate poverty, mitigate climate change, and solve for other complex problems?
Thoughtful leaders from both sides of the political aisle agree that a critical link exists between our national security and the assistance that we provide to struggling countries to reduce poverty, mitigate conflict, spur economic development, help rebuild after disasters, and build self-sufficiency.
The report concludes that concerted efforts are required from all those responsible for the reduction of childhood poverty – including Government, civil society and international development partners – in order both to reduce the incidence of childhood poverty and mitigate its impact, and also to ensure that specific strategies are in place to reach the most marginalised and excluded children.
Since China has implemented these reforms, farmers' incomes have steadily increased and the government has invested more than $50bn£38bnbn) in programmes supporting farmers and households for environmental restoration, helping to ease poverty and mitigate the effects of climate change.
Pete's poverty was mitigated by the fact that he had a lot of relatives to share it with.
Only when structural problems, such as the political process in which social groups coordinate efforts with interest and lobbying groups, are fundamentally altered, can poverty be mitigated.
Given those sets of constraints, focusing on technologies separately does not work and it requires approaches, which can achieve food security and reduce poverty while simultaneously mitigating degradation of essential ecosystem services.
Most of these estimates are actually drawn on the same faulty assessment criteria, and therefore have failed to make any appreciable impact on mitigating poverty and inequality.
A strong tax base becomes the means for any economy to afford basic safety net services that can go a long way toward avoiding extreme poverty -- or mitigating its impact during economic downturns.
What if we could really achieve repeatable and scalable results in terms of widespread global development, entrepreneurship, mitigating poverty, and harnessing nature's power, by unlocking the big data of the NGO-big charity-donor-recipient ecosystem, using social and mobile to target and mobilize, and then storing it all in the cloud?
