1st millennium

Brazil’s CCT, Bolsa Familia is the largest programme of its kind in the world. Bolsa Familia 13 million households, with about 5 people in each household. This figure is astounding, as it reaches 25% of the entire population of Brazil. Since the implementation of Bolsa Familia, the programme has near unanimously been praised for its growing success. Bolsa Familia has worked to bring an overall reduction in income inequality, as well as leading to an exponential increase in school enrolments and…

Since the early 1990s, microcredit, or the provision of small loans to borrowers in the poorest areas in the world who lack collateral and employment, has been widely regarded as an effective tool to combat poverty. Microcredit loans have been widespread in development institutions across the socio-political spectrum in the Global South, as part of local and national government initiatives and as independent entities (Uddin 144). Many researchers and practitioners also consider microcredit a…

For thousands of years, children have been taken against their will and forced to work under harsh conditions, low wages, and long hours. Today, this continues to be a major issue that affects children all around the world. One of the most infamous countries for child poverty is India. Over 3 million children, ages 5 to 14, are enslaved in child labor in India. Although legislature in India is fighting to fix their child labor situation, it is too hard to enforce making it a never-ending battle.…

The Millennium Development Goals were established by the United Nations to pursue pertinent issues that will contribute to the better good of the human race. The first goal of the Millennium Development Goals states the attempt to eradicate hunger and egregious poverty all over the world. In 2009, there were an estimated number of 1.023 billion people all over the globe that suffered from hunger. Developing countries are still making this dilemma a priority. An investment in agriculture could…

unemployment benefits, freedom from sexual harassment in the workplace, and other critical rights. The UN Millennium development goals are designed to improve and alleviate standards in key areas of human development. These goals focus around the standard of living for millions of people and combat extreme issues that trouble multiple western and eastern countries (cite). The third millennium development goal encompasses education, political participation, and economic empowerment with equality…

IV. Description of differences in the countries in terms of the solutions to their unique problems Haiti relies heavily on aid from foreign governmental agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Haiti also counts on assistance from non-governmental organizations such as UNICEF. In 2002, the CDC opened an office in Haiti with plans to address the issues concerning HIV/AIDS. Treatment and care for those already…

Sustainable Development Goals Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the goals that created by the United Nation (UN) in order to develop the member states by achieving all of those goals. There are a lot of countries in the world that still have many challenges and problems that prevent them from becoming the developed countries. The newest sustainable development goals were released by UN in September 2015. The newest version of Sustainable Development goals consists of 17 goals which were…

Achieving universal primary education is the most important millennium development goal. In 2001 when the world powers created the millennium development goals there was an estimated 115 million children who were deprived of the right to education with the majority of them being women. This is a catastrophe, a lack of universal primary education contributes to a lot of the world problems. There are many nations that have worked toward the millennium development goal of achieving universal…

their individual ideas of what constitutes development. In its planning, “poverty,” “education,” “[gender] equality,” “environmental sustainability,” among others, are listed as goals to be met (United Nations MDG Report 2014). These are called Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which were created with the intention to help Third World countries develop. Even though these issues are considered vital to the well-being of peoples in Third World countries, there are a number of issues…

The country of Germany is located in Western and Central Europe, neighboring Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic, France and Switzerland. Germany has an estimated population of 82,727,000 people; where 13% is under the age of 15 and 27% is over the age of 60. In this large population the life expectancy at birth is 81 years and a health life expectancy at birth is 71 years old (“World Health Organization”, 2015). Within this country there is an estimated 701.6 thousand live births and an estimated…