This week Live 8 mega-event turned our attention to problem of poverty. We learned that a child dies from it every three seconds. While we wait for world to finally do something in order to save African kids, we should look closely at statistics and true extent of international poverty.

The distribution of Global Capital

Half world, nearly three billion people, lives on less than two dollars a day. 1.3 billion people live on $1/day. The Gross Domestic Product of 48 poorest nations, i.e. a quarter of world’s countries, is less than wealth of world’s three richest people combined. The 48 poorest countries account for less than 0.4 per cent of global exports.

The richest 50 million people in Europe and North America have same income as 2.7 billion poor People. The combined wealth of world’s 200 richest people hit $1 trillion in 1999; combined income of 582 million people living in 43 least developed countries is $146 billion.

The current LIVE 8 campaign is trying to eliminate debt catastrophe: developing world spends $13 on debt repayment for every $1 they have received in aid. The poorer country, more likely it is that debt repayments are extracted directly from people who neither contracted loans nor received any of money. As a result of debt catastrophe, millions of children have died each year because their government couldn’t reduce poverty levels.

In my last article entitled “How to build your MLM business by not talking” we discussed how to identify a strong prospect for your MLM business and how to approach them.

The next step is to take yourself completely out of equation by pointing your prospect to a prequalification system which will educate your prospect as to real life advantages of MLM business model. It is not yet time to introduce your specific business or product. First, you should provide a more generic video, book or a web presentation or some other tool which will clearly identify network marketing business concept.

Don’t trick your prospects into attending a meeting or live presentation if they are unaware that your business is MLM. This turns people off, and makes them feel manipulated and it puts you in a position where you may have to deal with those objections yourself.

Use a system that informs prospect of MLM nature of your business without your input. That way, you will not attract difficult questions from your prospect. If your prospect is completely un-accepting of MLM business model, they will bow out of process at this point.