1 / 20

Millennium Development Goals

Millennium Development Goals. United Nations 2000-2015. 1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger. World Bank establishes $1/day (US$) as the poverty level. 2. Achieve Universal Primary Education. Teachers represent hope How can we hold (inter)national leaders to their promises?.

hanne
Download Presentation

Millennium Development Goals

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. MillenniumDevelopmentGoals United Nations 2000-2015

  2. 1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger • World Bank establishes $1/day (US$) as the poverty level.

  3. 2. Achieve Universal Primary Education • Teachers represent hope • How can we hold (inter)national leaders to their promises?

  4. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women • Why is this crucial for development? • Birth Control • Improved health benefits economy • More likely to send girls to school • Can participate in economy to larger extent

  5. 4 & 5: • Reduce child mortality by 2/3 • Improve maternal health • Reduce maternal mortality by 3/4

  6. 6. Combat HIV/AIDS • And malaria, and other diseases. • Better health leads to more wealth. • No clear agreement about who is in charge of this initiative. • Too broad to be effective?

  7. 7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability • Urbanization • Safe Water & Sanitation • Slums of Hope v. Slums of Despair

  8. 8. A Global Partnership for Development • Rich Countries • Relieve Debt • Help with new technologies • Increase Aid • Poor Countries • Better governance • Tackle Corruption

  9. Trade Barriers • Support developing local economies. • Find balance: • Subsidies • Management of surpluses • Foreign aide • Tariffs • Fair pricing

  10. MGD Leaves Out: • Crime • Drug Trade • Arms Trade • Social Issues • OR: addressing poverty as a root cause will alleviate these issues?

  11. War on Terror • Poses an obstacle for MDG • Diverts attention and resources of rich countries • Development v. Defense • Which will get at root cause? • Build Peace v. Fight Defensive War

  12. The Real Leap Forward China and the UN Millennium Development Goals

  13. Reduced Poverty in China • 1978: 250 million below poverty • 30% of population • 2006: 28.2 million below poverty line. • <3% of population • World Bank: $1/day

  14. Household Responsibility System (1978) • End centralized agricultural planning • Return communal farms to individual families • Aimed at helping rural poor

  15. SW Poverty Alleviation Project • Joint project of China and the World Bank • Basic Infrastructure Development: • Roads • Electricity • Water management systems • Improved seed and animal stocks • Sustainable, cleaner energy resources

  16. Dragon Heads • Entrepreneurs • Inspire others, create opportunities • Risk destabilizing social structure by increasing economic disparity

  17. Come Down from the Mountain • Rural labor migration • Residence permits • Facilitate rural poor moving to small cities in a controlled fashion

  18. Western Development Project • Loess Plateau, Yellow River • Transform desert into arable land • Rehabilitate ecosystem: • Terracing • Cover crops to protect soil • Sustainable clean water • Controlling herds of goats (etc.)

  19. More Information • www.tve.org/lifeonline • The Millenium Goals - Dream or Reality? • The Real Leap Forward • www.mdgmonitor.org/ • Interactive maps and profiles • www.un.org/english

  20. The Buck Stops Here • $150 million = Chinese Loess Plateau Project. • $40 billion = Microsoft spent to buy Yahoo last week. • $275 million/day = US in Iraq • $17 billion = US on nuclear weapons in 2007 • $1.5 billion = Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation must give away annually to maintain Charitable Organization tax status.

More Related