Summary

Bill Moyers The landless poor Robert McNamara 54:32 The landless poor, exactly refer what we call the lowest 40% The only way to deal with the lowest 40% is to raise their productivity, redistribution of income is not going to do it, but to raise their productivity There has to be a redistribution of government services You got to stop treating the urban centers as privileged centers for purposes of primary education and get that primary education on to the rural areas You've got to have roads out there I think I'm right in saying 50% of the rural people in in Ethiopia are more than one day's walk from the nearest dirt road? How can you expect them to do increase their productivity and produce a surplus for cash sale, which they may then used to build a better house or buy a school or something when they can't get their product to market? But throughout the developing world, there's a maldistribution of services, education, health, water, etc, that's got to be changed, it's going to take time to do it The political power is in the hands of those who don't want to give it up