Article Related content Article metrics Rapid responses Response Rapid Response: Eliminating inequality is feasible Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars are spent in useless, counterproductive, or even harmful ventures. Extreme World poverty could be quickly and easily eliminated, Millenium Goals achieved, if only corruption was fought against, and logical consensus was achieved in order to channel part of these funds to charitable deeds. References http://daily.financialexecutives.org/nearly-400-billion-lost-annually-du... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/corrupt-european-countrie... http://www.politico.eu/article/corruption-costs-eu-990-billion-year-rand... http://www.rand.org/blog/2016/03/the-true-economic-cost-of-corruption-in... http://time.com/3908457/red-cross-six-homes-haiti/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/04/red-cross-haiti-report_n_751108... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/05/red-cross-haiti-black-hole-... http://borgenproject.org/how-much-does-it-really-cost-to-eliminate-globa... https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2013-01-19/annual-incom... http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4959e.pdf http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/4313111ec005.pdf http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jul/06/united-nations... Competing interests: No competing interests 10 February 2017 Stavros Saripanidis Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Thessaloniki, Greece
Rapid Response:
Eliminating inequality is feasible
Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars are spent in useless, counterproductive, or even harmful ventures.
Extreme World poverty could be quickly and easily eliminated, Millenium Goals achieved, if only corruption was fought against, and logical consensus was achieved in order to channel part of these funds to charitable deeds.
References
http://daily.financialexecutives.org/nearly-400-billion-lost-annually-du...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/corrupt-european-countrie...
http://www.politico.eu/article/corruption-costs-eu-990-billion-year-rand...
http://www.rand.org/blog/2016/03/the-true-economic-cost-of-corruption-in...
http://time.com/3908457/red-cross-six-homes-haiti/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/04/red-cross-haiti-report_n_751108...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/05/red-cross-haiti-black-hole-...
http://borgenproject.org/how-much-does-it-really-cost-to-eliminate-globa...
https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2013-01-19/annual-incom...
http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4959e.pdf
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/4313111ec005.pdf
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jul/06/united-nations...
Competing interests: No competing interests