To What Extent Will the Millennium Development Goals Be Met?
<Poverty reduction, Education, Health>
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop global partnership for development
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop global partnership for development 1. Eradicate extreme poverty 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote gender equality and empower women 4. Reduce child mortality 5. Eradicate extreme poverty 6. Achieve universal primary education 7. Promote gender equality and empower women 8. Reduce child mortality One kid dies every seven minute in Africa because of starvation. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The 191 UN members established United Nations Millennium Development Goals stating that they have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. This MDG includes combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. Its’ aim is to decrease the world poverty fifty percent. There are eight goals in MDG.
Now 2012, it has passed more than 10 years since these goals have established to free humanity from extreme poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease. Some regions have shown massive improvement but some regions have standstill. The results are different in each goal. The main goals I’ll focus will be the poverty reduction which is no.1, education which is no.2, and health which is no.4 and no.6.
Eradicate extreme poverty.
Before making a decision whether the poverty had decreased or not. We must know how to measure it. To measure poverty, we have to consider the factors of poverty. Income, employment, hunger are the main factors of the poverty.
The first target was halves, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day. The fastest growth and sharpest reductions in poverty found in Eastern Asia, especially in China,
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop global partnership for development
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop global partnership for development 1. Eradicate extreme poverty 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote gender equality and empower women 4. Reduce child mortality 5. Eradicate extreme poverty 6. Achieve universal primary education 7. Promote gender equality and empower women 8. Reduce child mortality One kid dies every seven minute in Africa because of starvation. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The 191 UN members established United Nations Millennium Development Goals stating that they have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. This MDG includes combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. Its’ aim is to decrease the world poverty fifty percent. There are eight goals in MDG.
Now 2012, it has passed more than 10 years since these goals have established to free humanity from extreme poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease. Some regions have shown massive improvement but some regions have standstill. The results are different in each goal. The main goals I’ll focus will be the poverty reduction which is no.1, education which is no.2, and health which is no.4 and no.6.
Eradicate extreme poverty.
Before making a decision whether the poverty had decreased or not. We must know how to measure it. To measure poverty, we have to consider the factors of poverty. Income, employment, hunger are the main factors of the poverty.
The first target was halves, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day. The fastest growth and sharpest reductions in poverty found in Eastern Asia, especially in China,