Poverty Myth #1: Are illiterate parents interested in sending their children to school?
Poverty Myth #10: Child labor, not education, helps families end the cycle of poverty.
Poverty Myth #11: By increasing per capita income, poor countries can become developed by 2015.
Poverty Myth #12: Modern medicine and technology have eliminated pregnancy- and birth-related deaths around the world.
Poverty Myth #15: Increased food availability will reduce hunger caused by famines.
Poverty Myth #17: The Millennium Development Goals focus on eradicating poverty by the year 3000.
Poverty Myth #2: If school is free, why don’t more children in poor countries attend?
Poverty Myth #4: Societies and countries are poor because their populations are large.
Poverty Myth #5: Reducing birth rates in developing countries will end poverty.
Poverty Myth #7: Strict population control measures are the most effective way to slow down population growth in developing countries.
Poverty Myth #8: Indian children are malnourished because they do not have enough food.
Poverty Myth #9: Limited or no access to drugs is the single greatest impediment to stopping the AIDS pandemic.
