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BSI's Conclusion:
= Education = - Steps must be taken to ensure that **primary education** is available to all boys and girls, as specified in the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), and reduce the burden of child labour. Literacy campaigns should be carried out for adults, alongside vocational training that would enable them to seek alternate employment opportunities. NGOs could help by starting **computer training workshops** in rural and urban slum areas which would open up new avenues for knowledge and information sharing and employment.

- Global strategies to improve access to primary education. -  The most obvious hurdle towards socio economic development lies in the strong **traditional class**, caste and gender biases that marginalizes certain sections of society, such as Dalits, tribals and women. Education, although a giant step forward in this respect, cannot be the only solution as such hierarchies have been built over centuries and it is not easy to wish them away overnight. Greater awareness and respect of other people’s rights can enable marginalized communities to take part in the country’s economic development that would ultimately benefit everyone. 1. Health professionals may have a key part to play in eradicating poverty. Firstly, they need to make sure that interventions inside the health sector benefit the poor. Too often government health expenditure is skewed towards urban hospitals which disproportionately serve the rich. 2. Secondly, they need to make sure that in their everyday relationships with patients they treat the poor as well as anyone else. One of the commonest complaints from poor people using health services is that health professionals treat them with disrespect and offer them substandard treatment.11 Training to stamp out this kind of prejudice should be mandatory for health professionals. 3. Finally, health professionals need to promote interdepartmental cooperation and action by governments to promote better education, water, and sanitation and other services which improve the lives of the poor. The diseases of poverty cannot be tackled without concerted economic and political action. This means justice and equality for the poorest people within our societies. You can help make a difference by getting involved. - Microcredit has some merit within certain narrowly defined limits. It can be a great help to poor people with good math skills, and some predisposition for entrepreneurship. Such programs are especially helpful for the moderately poor, and for enterprises located near roads and crossroads. Successful microentrepreneurs also need to be able to choose good, money making investments, and be able to pursue them without undercutting from other microentrepreneurs or cheap imports. Finally, if the enterprises are going to be encouraged to cluster they must not be of a kind that is likely to produce large negative externalities.
 * Financial assistance should be provided to those schools who start vocational courses
 * The primary aim of elementary education should be the overall development of a child in various fields.
 * Mid day meal schemes should be provided in schools such that free food is available in schools and children have an incentive to join schools
 * Primary education system should orgainse skill training classes and help children solve complex tasks with ease
 * Highly qualified professionals and teachers should visit regionally backward areas to provide special training to rural students and teachers
 * Government health facilities should be combined with schooling systems to improve the health of students
 * Health and Poverty**
 * Microfinancing and Micro-credit**

- Both the government and various non government organizations (NGOs) should be actively engaged in various activities that seek to improve the socio-economic condition of the deprived. One of the main routes is to let the impoverished take charge of their own affairs and destiny, by decentralizing governance and providing them economic assistance and training that would offer those who have lost their livelihoods due to various reasons an alternative mode of employment and income. Microcredit and microfinance is one such instrument. Various national and private banks must offer microcredit to rural communities, especially women, enabling them to empower themselves. Sustainable Development ** Widespread environmental degradation and pollution is the price of development. This realization has paved the way towards the concept of **sustainable development**. Economic development is meaningless and can ultimately only be harmful if it is not done in a sustainable manner. Alternative energy sources, water harvesting and controlling deforestation are some ways in which environmental degradation can be halted. Decentralising local governance and decision-making processes go a long way in ensuring that economic growth is achieved in a sustainable manner, and that one section of society does not pay the price of development while another reaps its benefits. Checks on industrial and vehicular emissions, and on water pollution by toxic and human wastes can make living conditions more livable, thereby improving health and bringing prosperity.