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What can be done? The following are solutions suggested by the academics:

1. Income Distribution and Economics - ‘Economic progress will partly depend on the casting off of obsolescent modes of distribution-obsolescent in the sense of limiting the use of society’s accumulated knowledge and productive power to improve lives. James Peach has written that “[pjoverty occurs, not because of resource constraints or a lack of technical knowledge, but because institutional (distributional) arrangements have not been adjusted to the productive potential of the modern society” (1994, 170).’ Christopher Brown.  (2005). Is There an Institutional Theory of Distribution? Journal of Economic Issues, 39(4), 915-931.
2. New Mental Judgment and Decision Making Processes - ‘Pathways distill, organize, and present the assembled information in a way that allows people in communities to understand not only what they might do, but why they should do it, what it will take to do it well, and what contextual forces, which may either enhance or constrain the effectiveness, they are likely to encounter.’ Lisbeth B Schorr,  Patricia Auspos. (2003). USABLE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT WORKS: BUILDING A BROADER AND DEEPER KNOWLEDGE BASE. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 22(4), 669-676.
3. Going Wireless - ‘Wireless industries have a potential to improve lives, change the world for the better and create a great deal of wealth. However, many obstacles stand in the way of this result. Businesses will face challenges in the areas of creation of technology, the adoption of the same by consumers, business considerations, global and local legal issues and consumer fears and resistance to the constant change around us. These obstacles can be overcome by understanding them and addressing them systematically. Businesses must be aware of the challenges in order to effectively plan the future and responsibly take in investment capital to drive the wireless industries. If these steps are taken with an eye on lessons-learned more will be learned about the networked economy and wonderful and exciting times will await those in the wireless industries and any business that benefits from new technologies.’   Michael Leventhal.  (2002). The golden age of wireless. Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal, 14(1), 1-6.
4. Education and Training - Knowledge is power. The pen is mightier than the sword and so fourth. ‘Out of a different practice and skilling (Ingold 2000) in daily life, arose a worldview that made them capable of action, of filing lawsuits against multinational corporations and of dreaming of utopias of a radically different agriculture that corresponds to the ecology of the prairies.’ Birgit Müller.  (2008). Still Feeding the World? The Political Ecology of Canadian Prairie Farmers. Anthropologica, 50(2), 389-407.
5. Women - ‘Gender ideology and gender roles discourage and inhibit women from optimizing their human capital in activities that would yield optimal returns. Meanwhile, women’s contributions at home generally are not reciprocated by men. Many women express their frustration with this situation; men are generally less inclined to see women’s roles outside of the home as proper or even feasible nor are they willing to contribute more at home to support female entrepreneurship. For policy makers, perhaps the most important lesson is not to use microcredit as a substitute for other programs that empower women. Microcredit is just one of many initiatives that can challenge unfair gender norms. Governments should complement microcredit programs by funding other initiatives to promote gender awareness and fairness.’ Dwight Haase.  (2007). Closing the Gender Gap. ESR Review, 9(2), 4-9.
6. Information Sharing - ‘There is still an urgent need for national statistical offices, academics and public and private bodies to collaborate to measure real progress. The question at hand is not just what a shared information set means and should contain, but how to change culture and policies worldwide.’ Enrico Giovannini.  (2007). Why measuring progress matters. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD Observer,(262), 22-23. ‘Technology should facilitate dissemination of knowledge and not hinder it and that scarcity of resources should never come in the way of accessing information that is likely to lead to better healthcare and a better life.’ S Bavdekar,  N Gogtay,  D Muzumdar,  P Vaideeswar,  V Salvi,  M Sarkar. (2007). Journal of Postgraduate Medicine: The path ahead. Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, 53(3), 153-153.
7. Participation in Democracy - ‘We associate the term democracy with orderly elections, stability of government, universal secret suffrage, the federal system and even with certain legal sanctions for the protection of private property and individual economic enterprise which are part of the Anglo-American systems. Many of us of course, realize that democracy is more than this. From Jefferson on our leaders of democratic thought have pointed out the spiritual strivings and the social aspirations which constitute its essence, particularly the aspirations for a better and freer social order. They have seen that democracy is a complex of all these strivings intimately associated with powerful dynamic elements arising from the conquest of a new continent and from the industrial and technological revolutions of the past century and a half. Inevitably these economic changes broadened the basis of political participation in the nation-state as they opened up opportunities for ampler economic and cultural life to larger masses of people affected by these historical processes. A good deal of what we recognize as democracy in the modern world is just this broadening of the basis of political structure.’ Harold E Davis.  (2007). Democracy in Latin America. World Affairs, 170(1), 45-49.

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