... Goals (hereafter referred to as MDGs). All U.N. member states have endorsed them. These 8 ambitious goals are commonly described as a "roadmap for world development by 2015": 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote gender equality and empower women. 4. Reduce child mortality 5. Improve maternal health 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. 7. Ensure environmental sustainability ... testing a wide array of methods and hypothesis in real life. As a result they have accumulated an unparalleled working knowledge in how to promote g...

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... intensity of international economic links, the World Bank has identified that between the two World Wars and through the Great Depression the global poverty rose strongly and inequality widened. It seems due to colonialism and the exploitation of raw materials, which ensured the benefits to the colonising ... market forces drives wages and labour standards in the poorest countries even lower as the latter attempt to attract foreign investment. Based on this line of reasoning, it is tempting to conclude "as many northern activists, who are against globalisation, have done "that trade shou...

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... Report No. 207, 2011, p. 20) The report also outlines how the Taliban are successfully recruiting people due to a variety of factors such as poverty, broken promises by the government, and a resistance towards the foreign forces who are perceived as invaders of Afghanistan serving their own purposes. Some people ... affected by institutionalized bribery are the families in the lower income brackets. Given that 36% of Afghanistan's population live below the national poverty line (The World Bank, 2013), the impact of bribery preventing services from being provided to families of little or ...

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... form of economic organisation. Globalisation is the rapid increase in cross-border economic, social, technological exchange under conditions of capitalism. It attempts to characterize globalization, and its effects on poverty, the environment, gender, culture, and political structure and dynamics. David Held and Anthony McGrew write in their entry for Oxford Companion to Politics that globalisation can be conceived as ... an interruption to the process of globalisation commenced in the late 19th century. A sense that the world was united was generated by the establishment of the Interna...

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... has also been highly criticized for funding ill conceived projects, especially those that had negative environmental impacts. In 1978, the president of the World Bank, Robert McNamara, defined absolute poverty as "a condition of life so limited by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid surroundings, high infant mortality, and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable definition of ... as well as those who own the land outright (Durning, 42). In Nepal, for example, the health of the villagers can be directly related to the retreating tree line on the mountainous slopes surro...

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... starting July 1, 1996. Funding for the 11th Replenishment will allow IDA to lend about $22 billion, of which donors' contributions will provide about half.  IDA's Impact on Poverty  IDA attacks poverty through a broad range of projects, including projects targeted on human resource development such as education, health, population and nutrition, and water supply and sanitation (33%), agriculture ... and rural development (23%), and the provision of infrastructure (23%). IDA also contributes to poverty reduction by advising governments on the best policies for attaining broad-based econ...

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... have been overwhelmed, some foreign companies are already pulling out workers. A number of big mining firms have evacuated foreign staff and shut down non-essential operations. Governments walk a fine line between limiting the spread of a disease and causing needless disruption. Panic is avoided not just by combating an epidemic, but by being seen to do so. Transparency is important. By ... era of vibrant and dynamic economic growth and cohesion. This is despite religious, ethnic and political division. Ebola risks marginalising and demotivating a whole generation of citizens through e...

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... issues alone, but since the G8's scope has expanded to nearly all global concerns and issues on politics, economy, health, science, military, security, poverty, environment, etc, it would be unjust not to grant the rest of the world a say in making decisions. The G8 is not only biased ... debt relief matter so much? Debt relief is critical to ensuring that all the nations of the world are not trapped in a cycle of poverty, interest payments and underdevelopment. It is important to relieve debt because heavily indebted countries are forced to spend more on servicing their debt than ... ...

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... on debt re-servicing leaving hardly anything for social expenditure. Subsidies on basic commodities such as bread and water have been removed, resulting in price increases, depriving access and causing poverty. A consequence has been civil unrest in countries such as Mexico, Jordan, Venezuela, Egypt, Indonesia and Nigeria. For example, Jordan was hit by bread riots in 1996. People demonstrated on the ... foreign capital sucked out of its economy in the six months between November 1997 and April 1998 alone. An estimated forty million people - a fifth of the entire population fell into po...

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... the exploitation of third-world labour, and these organizations are busy facilitating that process. At a time when it's easier than ever to convert human labour into wealth, we have more poverty in the world than ever before and the gap will keep widening as corporatism becomes more politically irresistible. The main benefit of corporatism is that it recognises the importance of ... its own logic exempt from the rules' of human community. To own a corporation is a perilous undertaking but protected by this grand device of amoral disinterest in anything but the bottom line'. The logic is...

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