Originally Posted by
MtnBiker
The solution to poverty is wealth. Not the distribution of wealth, but the creation of wealth.
I think it's a bit more complex than that. A country can have great wealth concentrated in a few hands and the greater majority of the population can still be extremely poor. So it's not just creation of wealth but it's distribution that's important. In capitalist countries the wealth is kept in a very few hands and although wealth has been created, as you point out, the fact that it's kept in the hands of plutocrats means that povery still exists.
Therefore I would amend your point to read, the solution to poverty in a nation is the creation of wealth and following the creation of that wealth, the equitable distribution of wealth in that nation.
"Unbloodybreakable" DCI Gene Hunt, 2008