2nd millennium

Brazil and the countries associated with Latin America have successfully met the Millennium Development Goals of reducing the child mortality rate by a vast number. From 1990 to 2015, Latin America was able to decrease the child mortality rate by 69%; the number starting at 54 deaths per 1000 births to only 17 deaths per 1000 children born. This example shows Latin America was able to successfully decrease the number of child mortalities by a drastic number in fifteen years. They were able to…

to focus on rural areas which lack water sanitation. Furthermore, BRAC has officially backed the Millennium Development Goals and has philosophies in accordance with the Reconstruction and Development Programme. By using a combination of national subsidies and BRAC funding, the international community will be able to apply the Reconstruction and Development Programme globally and meet the Millennium Development Goal of reducing the amount of people without sanitized…

Analysing research on National Poverty Alleviation Program (Samurdhi Development Program) of Sri Lanka Introduction The aim of this paper is to critically examine and assess the attempts of two research studies in collecting evidence for the same development problem. Poverty is selected to study as the contemporary development issue in Sri Lanka and particularly poverty alleviations interventions of the government will be examined in this paper. However as mentioned the trust of this analysis…

“Education is the key to success” Article 26 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “ everyone has the right to education” (UN). Is education the solution to Africa’s poverty? Several studies have linked lack of education as being one of the reasons for under -development in Africa. My essay is going to explore this notion and also other core issues that I felt were imperative for the development of Africa. The other matters I look into are Poor governance, Civil war and…

Domestic Regulation Governing the practice of son preference in China Son preference and domestic regulations governing the practice, since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, legislations have been conventional honored to protect women and girls’ rights and interests. Notwithstanding the government has designed various programs that promote woman right, in line with national policies that forbid the practices. To protect the rights of women, China has ratified important…

4.2.1. MDG 1 – Poverty Reduction and Job and Food Security Many studies on the MDGs have generally agreed that there is a correlation between an improvement in the economic performance (measured by GDP per capita, or PPP in some instance) with an overall increase in improvement of countries in reaching the MDGs. This is self-evident in the MDG 1: Eradicating Extreme Hunger and Poverty (Bourguignon et al. 2008, pp.13–14; Melamed 2010, pp.1–2). It has been noted that poverty reduction in…

providing significant attention to educational reform efforts by concentrating solely on access to primary schooling. However, in more recent years, given the abolition of user fees combined with the push towards Education for All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goal (MDGs), the World Bank and other multilateral agencies have cooperated in…

sustainable development was included in the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) of the United Nations as one of the explicit goals (MDG7) among the eight goals. This can show that the national government across different countries work together to set up the strategies for national sustainable development, and how important sustainable development is in the global arena. In this essay, I will examine the relationships between sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals and how…

different issues that cannot be pinpointed to one location. Gender inequalities, lack of education, corruption and lack of political framework all play important roles in maintaining the conditions that breed poverty. External forces such as the Millennium Development Goals will fail unless they attempt to combat all the problems at the same time rather than one after another. Poverty is a complex problem and will probably be solved not by globalization but an even more complex…

2016-17 for their commitment to achieving MDGs. In 2000, GNP was replaced with the similar Gross National Income (GNI) which includes terms of trade adjustment (Anup, 2011). Despite such promise, donors have rarely met their promised target. As Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) hoped to be achieved in 2015, the promised target should reach as promised as well (Anup,…