while not all poor people are really dumb, when you have an entire country thats mostly starving, chances are, well, that they are also way uneducated. and by golly, education and poverty go hand in hand.

the one child rule only works in countries where most babies are born in an actual hospital and subject to record keeping. its impossible to track some bushwomans nine kids, the government doesnt even know her name.

when you break it down, the only real soultions to fixing third world crapholes would seriously limit personal freedoms and all for quite a number of years, up to when the natives were able to roll the ball on their own.

but who are we kidding? its not like if somethings been broke a thousand years its ever going to be fixable. before haiti was a total crap country, it was a rich, important place. because outside might and oppression made it so. after freedoms were fought for and given, down the toilet it went. before outside influence it wasnt much of a shake either. some lands have been viable for hundreds of years, more. some countries need help, many dont.

personally, my way to fix such problems would be to stop giving help. more people would die, but thats natures way to balance. eventually people would realize hey, we actually gotta fix this ourselves. world charity is a great enabler, but it fixes nothing.