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Vanessa Morris
Joined: Jul 18, 2007
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Gender & Age: Female & 34
Country: Guyana
Province/State: Demerara-Mahaica
City: Georgetown
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Re: Should be restructured for developing countries
July 24, 2007 - 01:08 PM
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The millennium developed goals with a deadline of year 2015, semms not to take account of the challenges faced by developing countries.
The goal to eradicate extreme poverty by halving the faction of the population that survives on less than US$1 per day is not going to eradicate extreme poverty by a long shot in a developing country as Guyana. A meal costs an average US$5 and the average working Guyanese uses two meals a day. In the face of high unemployment and high cost of livine, it is a fact that some 70% of the population do not have a full meal everyday. The action agreed to be taken will not eradicate extreme poverty.
Universal primary education in developing countries is a piped dream. People cannot afford to send their children to school and even in cases where the governments provide schoolclothes and meals in school, the and quality of the education given is hampered by the absence of qualified and devoted teachers since suchlike ones are attracted by better wages and living conditions in developed countries.
I would like to see a global partnership for development when the international funding agencies are bleeding borrowing countries with small export markets and who borrow on terms and access debt relief on terms.
You may call me a killer whale but I am not optimistic that the majorty of developing countries will ever achieve any of the goals.
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