The Millennium Development Goals the world is addressing the many dimensions of human development, including halving by 2015 the proportion of people living in extreme poverty. Developing countries are working to create their own national poverty eradication strategies based on local needs and priorities. UNDP advocates for these nationally-owned solutions and helps to make them effective through ensuring a greater voice for poor people, expanding access to productive assets and economic opportunities, and linking poverty programs with countries' international economic and financial policies. At the same time, UNDP contributes to efforts at reforming t

The next world problem that I will discuss is the empowerment of women. It is sad that with all the progress that women have made in America has been so slow to reach and influence other countries. The UNDP website stated that they are having conferences to make progress on this issue in Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Japan, Morocco, Slovenia, and New Zealand. On page 126 Gandhi says, “…just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problem must be one in essence. The soul is both the same. The two live the same life and have the same feelings. Each is a complement of the other. The one cannot live without the other’s active help. But somehow man has dominated woman from ages past, and so woman has developed and inferiority complex. She has believed in the truth of man’s interested teaching that she is inferior to him…The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of women will always undertake, requires qualities which man need not possess…The art of bringing up the infants of the race is her special and sole prerogative. Without her care the race must become extinct. In my opinion it is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth…There is as much bravery in keeping ones home in good order as there is in defending it against attack from without.

According to the UNDP website, more countries than ever before are working to build democratic governance. Their challenge is to develop institutions and processes that are more responsive to the needs of ordinary citizens, including the poor. UNDP brings people together within nations and around the world, building partnerships and sharing ways to promote participation, accountability and effectiveness at all levels. We help countries strengthen their electoral and legislative systems, improve access to justice and public administration, and develop a greater capacity to deliver basic services to those most in need. The critical importance of democratic governance in the developing world was highlighted at the Millennium Summit, where the world's leaders resolved to "spare no effort to promote democracy and strengthen the rule of law, as well as respect for all internationally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to development." A consensus was reached which recognized that improving the quality of democratic institutions and processes, and managing the changing roles of the state and civil society in an increasingly globalized world must underpin national efforts to reduce poverty, sustain the environment, and promote human development.

I agree with this Gandhian thought one hundred percent. I feel that greedy people who’s only interest is to make money exploit us from things that were given to us for free, like water. I could understand charging for fruit drinks and things of that nature, but pure water, bottled. I have seen bottled water ranging in price from one dollar to three or four dollars, depending on the brand and where it claims the water is from. However, I have been to a place that actually has free drinking water, which I feel is just as good as the bottled water. This is in my grandmother’s town in Portugal. There is a natural spring where everyone in the town goes for their drinking water. Now this is not a poverty stricken town, it is a town of farmers, most have of them have cars and live to be over 90 years old. Why would this town of people have the luxury of free drinking water, yet many underdeveloped countries have their people drink sewer water or that is running down a dirt road? Something is definitely wrong with this picture.

Gandhi states on page 118 that “According to me the economic constitution of India and for that matter of world, should be such that no one under it should suffer from wan

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