Poverty is one of the most pressing issues underlying the population problem. The issue of poverty is complex and has many dimensions. I refer to the structural and social dimensions of poverty that serve to buttress and reinforce the condition of being poor and hinder or frustrate attempts of people to escape the grinding conditions that poverty begets for their families. I also refer to the cultural aspects of poverty that, as a means of adaptation, tend to be self-perpetuating and self-fulfilling and to beget successive generations of people who know no other way of life but the suffering and human frustration of poverty. Solutions to poverty are not impossible, but require the careful and strategic redistribution of resources and the intelligent planning of alternative development programs, especially by centralized government agencies. Such programs tend to be rife with corruption, even in international agencies such as USAID and the World Bank.