Since I am a medical doctor, I used to see things wearing that doctor's glasses and I can't see thing properly without wearing this glasses. Here also the same thing I would like to analyze the poverty as a disease and I would to find out the treatment about it. First of all what is poverty? In search of the definition of poverty, I got an answer from Wordnet; it said, "The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions". Initially I would accept that definition, but with repeated reading,
I noticed that it is more materialistic. I found another indirect answer in our Buddhism. According to our Buddha, there are true valuable jewels in life and neither money nor possession is listed in it.

Here is the list of seven jewels

1. Saddha (Believe in Karma)
2. Sila (Precepts)
3. Caga (Donation)
4. Suta (Education)
5. Panna (Wisdom)
6. Hiri (Shamefulness on doing immoral things)
7. Ottapa (Fear of doing immoral things)

I would say a person is poor when he doesn't possess any of these jewels. Comparing these two definitions, we can say that our Buddha’s teaching is indirect but convey more truth and idea.
Even though the definition from Wordnet is more direct, it is incomplete and useful for short term purpose only. Why I would say that, I will explain more. When we think about money or our possession, we have the experience of the volatility of worldly materials. One can be rich one day and can be poor again within one’s lifetime. Or vice versa.

So my point is if I have to choose the wealth or jewels, definitely I will choose the ones our Buddha taught us. To recollect my conversation, I would say people in Burma are poor because they have no education and knowledge which are the main factors in this life. They are poor so they can't get good education and the vicious circle is running around their life.

We can appreciate another important fact of knowledge in life when we consider the reason of the recent outbreak of Dengue hemorrhagic fever. If people have the knowledge of mosquito bite can give rise to Dengue, and kill their loving ones, they might have prepared to prevent mosquito bite which is just needed to change the people’s attitude to treat stagnant water. I dare to say it is more important than a million gallon of DDT or similar potent insecticide. Burma used to be the "Rice Bowl of Asia" which means we have fertile soil not too long ago. But now we cannot produce enough of rice to let everybody eat until they are full.

We are blaming the politics as the major factor here but that is not the thing we can handle.

So what is the treatment?

There are various treatment options and I would like to present later for more economically feasible treatment