The poor gain more from some improvement in health, nutrition and education than from a lot of one and none of the others. The development of markets for the poor alleviates poverty in the long term. At a time when globalization promises great benefits, the well-being of the poor is threatened because their ability to seize opportunities in the market faces severe obstacles. In the absence of seed money from the private sector to spawn agricultural and rural development, investments to create wealth and alleviate poverty in developing countries have increasingly relied on foreign aid. Trade liberalization for the goods produced by the poor .
Global markets can help the rural poor.
Influence by the rural poor within and over institutions making decision affecting their lives. Typically, the poor have little control over their lives and the institutions that shape them. Institutions mediate the access of the poor to assets, technology, markets, and the rules that determine whether the poor benefit from such access. Participation in institutions allows the poor a voice, and gives them the power to discover and determine means to improve their own lives, in public affairs and the market. Decentralized institutional systems often favor the poor in terms of their control over natural resources, access to financial services, and ability to develop linkages with NGOs and the private sector.