Soleil's Sociothoughts
Poverty....
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Global Poverty Reference List
BBC News - Uneven progress of UN Millennium Development Goals. (2010).
Retrieved September 20, 2010, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11364717
Climate change concern slips as cost of living worry grows. (2010). Retrieved September 20, 2010, from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10674726
Drinkin' Muddy Water. (2005). Retrieved August 10, 2010, from http://publicaddress.net/2492#post2492
Where your money goes. (2009). Retrieved August 10, 2010, from http://publicaddress.net/6098#post6098
Glennie, J. (2010). Aid Spending and aid recieved: does more aid mean more development?.
Retrieved September 20, 2010, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/datablog/2010/sep/15/aid-spending-received-statistics
Hill, A. (2010). Migrant workers in UK suffering 'modern-day slavery'.
Retrieved September 1, 2010, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/aug/30/migrant-workers-modern-day-slavery
Lederer, M. E. (2010). World leaders to attend UN anti poverty summit. Retrieved September 15, 2010, from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10673338
Malloch-Brown, M. (2010). We've made great strides on global poverty - let's make more.
Retrieved September 20, 2010, from, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/20/global-poverty-new-york
Renton, A. (2010). Millennium Development Goals: Unesco struggles to meet target to educate 70m children out of poverty. Retrieved September 20, 2010, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2010/sep/19/millennium-development-goals-nigeria-education
World poverty falling sharply but patchily. (2010). Retrieved September 20, 2010, from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10674189
Notes about summary and some personal thoughts on my DeliciouS page.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Global Poverty, can it really be reduced?
This is just one of the many questions I have about this goal that the U.N. have. Is it achievable? Can poverty really be prevented?
It is hard to imagine that young children are forced to work and help their parents work when they should be in schools learning to get a better future for them. Even though it may sound easy to plan and say that the U.N.'s goal to reduce global poverty, to educate up to half of the poor children around the globe to at least a primary school level. Reality strikes and not everyone are getting or are capable to get educated due to unavoidable circumstances. Even so, some countries that have more capabilities or less complication to get an education are not getting it. So what is going on? Are the goals being carefully looked at and implemented to the right places/countries at the right time?
The statistics graph shown above, this proves how much work the U.N. has left to do in the 5 year duration to reach their Millennium Development Goal for 2015. The progress is patchy and slow, makes you wonder what they are actually doing to achieve this? My thoughts that, United Nations and the aid coming from countries that are more richer an has a better economy, where are the
money going. With the amount that they announced they gave or received like donations you'd think it would be enough to help and continuously supply much needed assistance, medical care, food and water. But some how corruption slip in there, much "needed" amount of expenses get taken out of the amount from the money that is meant to be for the poor. It makes me think about private organizations that help the needy, how is the money allocated and spend to help these people in need?