Some factors which help keep hunger conditions from improving are simply economic conditions in an area. Many times, the food is there for citizens to buy, but they simply don't have or earn enough to buy it. Also, money frequently doesn't stay inside of the country, which again hurts the economy and the government's ability to improve the region.

One problem is that some of the world's poorest countries owe hundreds of billions of dollars in debt to many of the more developed countries. This restricts the ability of the government to spend money to improve local conditions because the government instead spends money repaying other governments. Many are calling for the developed countries to cancel their debt, which would mean that the less developed country would not have to repay it. For more information, read the World Debt Cancellation article.

Campaigners protesting to 'Drop the debt'.

Also, some large multinational companies will send all of their profits from a less developed region back to their main headquarters, in a more developed country. This takes more money out of the economy of the less developed country, and simply adds more to the great imbalance of economic strength. If these companies instead invested in all regions and tried to keep money in the economy of the less developed country, it would overall cause growth of the country's economy, which would in turn help everyone. Companies need to realize that in order to make more money in these less developed regions, they must invest more as well.

Because of all of this money flowing out of these less developed countries, there is very little left to establish an economic infrastructure. The lack of basic markets locally simply requires more money to be sent out of the country. Putting an end to this requires a strong investment in the region from companies, governments, and individuals consisting not only of money, but also time and experience.