3rd millennium

So what are MDG goals?. The Millennium Development Goals or also known as the MDG goals are 8 different goals with each goal consisting of 1 target or more, with a clear deadline for enhancing the lives of the millions of people who are still living in poverty. In order to achieve these goals and eliminate the factor of poverty, leaders from 189 different countries came together and signed the historic Millennium declaration at UN (united nations) millennium summit in the year of 2000. During…

This essay will consider the viewpoints of childhood studies and child psychology, and evaluate the contributions that both disciplines can make to policy and practice. In the context of children, policy refers to a set of guidelines about aspects of children’s lives, whilst practice is dictated by policy and in turn, influences children’s lives directly. Although it does consider the influence of external factors, child psychology is a field of studying children that is primarily focused on the…

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…