But there almost certainly is a trade-off, not only in donors' budgets, but also in poor countries' capacity to absorb such assistance. A vaccine to combat malaria, on the other hand, has a market only in the poorest countries and so attracts little interest from the drug companies. Sachs has put forward an innovative scheme to create incentives, but, he argues, only the developed countries have the resources needed to fund these global public goods on the required scale. Yes , according to me , the technology can alleviate the poverty, coz offers so many chances to enter in the knoweldge world . Technology can be a force-multiplier in reducing poverty.
Technology needs to be made affordable and available to the common man to reduce poverty.
Perhaps the Internet cafes and kiosks that are beginning to dot the Indian countryside may bring about the knitting together of rural communities that makes development initiatives readily understandable to the village person. I believe that technology can HELP alleviate poverty, but that we must go far beyond the simple application of technology in poor and rural areas to allay this phenomena. Simply providing people with technology will not be the full answer. People need to be trained in how to use this technology, and of course they need to be fed if they are to be able to learn. You cannot learn much on an empty stomach.