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ERADICATING EXTREME POVERTY IN AFRICA
May 11, 2007 - 08:47 PM
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The First Goal
The foremost goal of the UN Millennium Challenge is thus to eradicate extreme poverty and the chronic hunger that results from it.
To Eradicate Extreme Poverty
Target: Halve, Between 1990 and 2015, the Proportion of People Whose Income is Less Than One Dollar a Day
The first target of the Millennium Challenge, halving the proportion of people surviving on less than one dollar per day, is the most important one, as its achievement directly and indirectly affects all the targets for the other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Poverty alleviation is related to all aspects of development. Meeting the targeted increase in income will greatly increase the likelihood that people will have the resources to meet other basic needs that are encompassed by the MDGs: mitigating hunger and malnutrition, reducing child and maternal mortality, increasing access to immunizations and medical treatment, improving healthcare and reversing the spread of malaria and HIV, increasing access to education, achieving gender parity, and increasing access to improved sanitation and clean water. Beyond increased incomes, the first target entails both reducing income inequality within countries as well as closing the overwhelming economic disparity between the global North and South.
To achieve the reduction of extreme poverty by half, a series of cross-cutting recommendations and coordinated strategies have been developed, including: increasing public investments; capacity building and domestic resource mobilization; promotion of international trade as an engine of development; increased and more effectively targeted official international development assistance; investment and promotion of the private sector; measures to improve rural and urban productivity; trade reform and the opening of high-income country markets to developing country exports; loan forgiveness to eliminate the poverty trap of debt-servicing; as well as state-sponsored training of community-based workers in the fields of agriculture, education, environmental management, health, nutrition, sanitation and water supply maintenance. To achieve this aim, every developing country is charged with designing a country-specific plan of action, outlining time-bound and targeted interventions to reach all Goals by 2015. As the developing nations are required to ensure good governance, prioritized spending, and reductions in corruption, developed countries must remain committed in their pledge to eliminate debt, provide for a just and fair international trading system, and increase and provide higher quality development assistance.
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Re: ERADICATING EXTREME POVERTY IN AFRICA
May 11, 2007 - 08:57 PM
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This is 2007 in 8 years from now, we will be in 2015. In as much as i love the idea of the MDG, i like to look with a kin interest the possiblity of ERADICATING EXTREME POVERTY in the World within the tme frame.
I as a person i do not see this happening.
I have been on the ground since monitoring events and evaluating progress, i have come to the understand that the time stated is too short and not realistic.
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May 11, 2007 - 09:15 PM
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yes, in 2015, or 2020, the way thing are going, the is every posibility that hunger will be eradicated to an extent if not totally,this is due to the fact that the world is rapidly eveolving so with her leaders so before that time frame hunger might have been eradicated to an extent if not totally..
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Re: ERADICATING EXTREME POVERTY IN AFRICA
May 12, 2007 - 06:25 AM
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The facts n ground do not suggest that we can have the desire result in 2015 expect we want to be economical with the truth.
Extreme poverty by the defination, for some parts of world i know needs a lot of commitment from the government and citizens to be wipe out. 2015 is not the year as things stands today.
Maybe there will be improvements.
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Re: ERADICATING EXTREME POVERTY IN AFRICA
May 14, 2007 - 02:46 PM
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'Poverty cannot be eradicated by charity but by wealth creation'
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Re: ERADICATING EXTREME POVERTY IN AFRICA
June 9, 2007 - 01:20 PM
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oluyemisiagboola wrote:
'Poverty cannot be eradicated by charity but by wealth creation'
And by empowering the poor!
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Re: ERADICATING EXTREME POVERTY IN AFRICA
June 18, 2007 - 07:32 AM
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Eradicating extreme poverty and the chronic hunger that results from it is a very big challenge taking into consideration the Vulnerability of the impacts of climate change amplified in some areas that are already under stresses such as land degradation or exposure to disease.
As examples, a report by Gary Yohe and Rodel Lasco, posted on SciDev.Net, April 16, 2007 notes that an additional 10 C of warming is predicted to cause up to a 5% decline in wheat and maize productivity in India, and leave an additional 1.2 billion people in Asia — and 250 million in Africa — facing water shortages. Another degree of warming and coastal flooding would pose a significant risk to up to 2 million more people in Asia, water scarcity would affect another 1.6 billion people in Asia and Africa, and China would face a drop of 12% in rice productivity. Africa is the first place where the impact of food shortage (security) will be felt.
The report concludes that Climate change will impede progress toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and suggests that the entire world will have to adapt to some degree.
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