Millennium Development Goals

Over 20 percent of the global population live in unsustainable impoverished conditions, surviving on less than a dollar a day, with approximately 50 percent living on less than two dollars. Over 2 ½ billion people have a 10% infant mortality rate versus the 0.006% of infant deaths in developed countries. As conditions worsen the poor-rich gap widens through progressive decades, reaching an average per capita income of 74:1 in 1997.1 A debate has emerged as the whether developed countries possess a duty to ameliorate the living condition of the global poor and on what grounds said duty is justified.

SDGs Goal Number 1 is “End poverty in all it forms everywhere.” Although the number of poverty is decreasing by more than half in the reign of MDGs, there are still 1.2 billion people living in poverty. More than 800 people still living on less than $1.25 per day. The biggest percentage of poverty is in countries in the South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa by 80% of global total in extreme poverty. Rapid economic growth countries (example: India and China) have made many people out of poverty but the progress also didn’t reach the maximum.

Poverty is widespread throughout the world, with around 20% of the entire population living on less than $1.25 per day. Everyday struggles for survival may include not having enough food for nourishment, no access to clean water, no proper shelter, lack of clothes, or no doctors and medicines. This lack of essential supplies and inability to improve one 's life may be caused by a country 's lack of resources. These countries either do not or cannot provide water, electricity, houses, or jobs to its citizens. The first Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Their job is to: a) halve the number of people living under the $1.25 per day line, b) provide employment for all, and c) halve the amount of people who are hungry. Past actions have included connecting countries to the resources they need to improve economic and social state, providing farmers without land pait work to fund a long-term job, and campaigns for medical assistance and outreach. The World Food Program bring humanitarian aid in the form of food to over 75 countries, both after disasters and emergencies, but also helps to prevent hunger in the future to countries in poverty. These have helped reduce poverty, however The Global Poverty Project has been working toward eliminating extreme poverty by 2030. They have been working to changing international policies, running awareness campaigns, and creating global

As Truman stated in his speech, we now have the means and ability to eradicate global poverty (The Economist, 2013). So, we ask the question: How far have we come, and what's holding us back from eliminating global inequality and poverty? There have been several groups of goals put in place to aid with this attempt, such as the MDGs, and the SDGs. The MDGs were supposed to have been met by 2015, but 2015 has since passed, and a new set of goals, the SDGs have been set to replace them, and aim to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030 (Ford, 2015). Realistically, eliminating global poverty is a global job, and if everyone isn't on board, how much can actually be achieved? What's stunting the progress of these goals? The fact that there are still

Many people might have had heard of the millennium project and its goals. However most don’t know how close these goals are to being all achieve. One huge misconception people have on the world population is that it will continue to grow until it reaches a point where it will be too big and collapse. Another misconception people have is how poor countries have no change on becoming developed and will always be poor. However, this development gap is closing and as it does it decreases the child rate in the poor countries allowing the world population to balance out.

First, the U.S., with the help of other countries, is wealthy enough to end world poverty. We have enough money to end world poverty. According to worldaltas, “We have many countries that owe U.S money. For instants, Brazil owes $247.3 billion, Ireland ($256 billion), Japan ($1.13 trillion), and China ($1.25 trillion) which is a total of $200,883,000,000.” This is enough to end world poverty. According to VisionofEarth, “To end extreme poverty worldwide in 20 years, Sachs calculated that the total cost per year would be about $175 billion.” World poverty can be ended with the help of other countries.

Half of the world, or about 3 billion people, live off of $2.50 or less a day. Additionally, according to UNICEF, approximately 22,000 children under the age of five, die every day from poverty. Something has to be done about this worldwide crisis of poverty, but no matter how hard we try calamity lingers. Poverty has been subjugating the Earth for years, obliterating families, jobs, and hope for a better life. It’s time for a change.

People fear tangible and visible things, places they have been and never wish to return like the old scary basement locked in darkness. Yet, poverty remains abstract, unknown, and even unfathomable to most. Across the world poverty runs rampant as 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 per day and more than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty on less than $1.50 per day. These are not abstracts, but facts so let me repeat myself, 1.3 billion people, part of the human race whose DNA contain the same sequences as everyone on this planet live in extreme poverty; where food, medical treatment, and clean water remains a luxury. To help put this in prospective look at an old budgetary game of time and numbers.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide a comprehensive framework through which the society can address pressing issues of poverty. The MDGs are made up of eight major objectives, which are all related to global development. In 2000, 189 world leaders signed a Millennium Declaration. The leaders set 2015 as the deadline for achieving the set MDGs. There has been a mixed result of the progress towards attaining these goals. One of the major achievements has been achieved is that there has been a major reduction of people living in extreme poverty.

Failure in development is a lack of sustained periods of economic growth and stability, and an increased dependence on foreign aid. For example, forty five per cent of people in Sub-Saharan Africa still continue to live in poverty (About Sub-Saharan Africa). Secondly, the inability to meet eight of the Millennium Development Goals constitutes a failure in promoting development within the last fifteen years (The Millennium Development Goals 2014). Furthermore, World Bank prescriptions have not promoted sustained growth independent of foreign involvement by “[raising] Southern output” (Mosley 1949). The World Bank’s “measured ability to trigger sustained growth in developing countries has been poor […] particularly […] in the poorest countries” (1951). This disparity in flow of investments to developing

We distinguish the importance of leadership when we vote for our political leaders. We realize that it is more important as to who is the candidate, so we participate in an election, to vote for the best candidate. Leaders are invaluable when it comes to formulating and communicating new strategic directions as well as motivating

The world is surrounded by several major problems which make it impossible for the world to exist in a peaceful manner. The world is corrupted by wealth/greed, surrounded by poverty, and riddled with disease. The world has turned people’s poverty into their wealth, many industries focus primarily on the poor due to the ability to take advantage of them. The poor can't defend themselves without a leader or representative body, and most lack the funds to create one, creating a never ending cycle of poverty and oppression. Poverty can be ended, the way I would approach it is not simple at all, but the initiatives I would personally are to focus on a foundation for each country, to have a outline of how to develop their economy in order to make it sustainable. Reason being, is because i'm sick of seeing the rest of the world flourish while the others suffer.

Fast-growing economies in the developing world have done most of the work. For instance, an article by the weekly publication The Economist states that between 1981 and 2001, China lifted 680m people out of poverty. Since 2000, the number of the poor living outside China has been “cut” by 280 million due to the growth of developing countries (“How Did..”). Surely a great feat for these developing countries and humanity in general. Finally, the most colossal problem that has plagued humanity for decades is undergoing a consequential decline and it is reaching its final lap. Does this signify that poverty will no longer be a threat to the world universally? Are we no longer going to discern ads showing children with no access to fundamental amenities suffering from malnutrition and other epidemic diseases? These questions do have answers. A postulation that poverty is reducing and will subsequently be eradicated is infeasible to conclude despite recent statistics exhibiting a remarkable decline in the rate of poverty in the world. We must consider the methods utilized by these international financial institutions in arriving at these figures. Withal, even if these statistics are true, a few countries still face major challenges in eradicating destitution.

The Millennium Goals (MDG) were created by the United Nations to help the world’s poorest people. Goal 7 of the MGD is to ensure environmental stability. When looking at the highlights (or key facts) for goal 7 in the 2015 report, marked improvements have been made. Due to global efforts to eliminate substances that deplete the ozone, it is anticipated that by 2050 the ozone layer will be restored. Since 1990, the percentage of the global population that uses an improved drinking water source has increased from 76 percent to 91 percent and 2.1 billion people have gained access to improved sanitation. The people practicing open defecation globally has been cut by almost half. Between 2000 and 2014, the proportion of urban population living in slums in the developing regions fell from 39.4 percent to 29.7 percent. There is an area, however, that did not show any improvement and in fact, has gotten worse. Since 1990, carbon dioxide emissions have increased more than 50 percent.

The Sustainable Development Goals are a set of global agendas set by the United Nations to be achieved by the year 2030. They are a continuation of the Millennium Development Goals, which were framed through the Millennium Deceleration in 2000 to address the needs of the world poor (1). The Millennium Development goals included a set of eight easily stated goals with 21 targets and 48 indicators to measure progress (1). Amongst them- reducing child mortality (MDG 4), improving maternal health (MDG 5) and combating HIV-AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6)- were specifically aimed at improving health (2). This approach provided a clear and focused direction for many of the stakeholders, to work on realizing these goals. The SDGs, on the other hand, are longer with 17 Goals and 126 targets (3). Unlike the MDGs, the SDGs contain one cohesive health goal (SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages), with 9 specific targets and 4 means of implementation within the targets (4) . There is criticism claiming that a switch from three to one goal would reduce the global focus on health. I argue that a simplified SDG goal is sufficient because it builds upon, and strengthens the template set-up in the MDGs. Furthermore, the four proposed ways of implementation to achieve these targets further reinforces the objective (1). Thus, if the work that has been laid out in the MDG era continues with a sustained focus, there is no reason why the priority