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Poverty and Millennium Development

In this research we will also study the benefits poor people availed from the goals (Moser, 2005).
             1.2 Aims and Objectives.
             To look at the theory of first goal of MDG related to poverty .
             To look at the poverty issues in different countries and how steps has been taken in order to reduce them through recipient countries, MDGs programmes and donors .
             To have a look at the outcome in the end.
             1.3 Research questions.
             To figure out how had the world accomplished MDG 1 successfully?.
             How these goals has changed the poor people lives effectively.
             To figure out what appeared to be the issues to challenge the countries from accomplishing the goals.
             2. Literature Review.
             2.1 Introduction.
             As this research will focus on the poverty issues so we will be talking about the first goal of MDG which is to eradicate the hunger and poverty of those individuals who are living their lives under $1 per day (Satterthwaite, 2003). This goal was supposed to be overcome within the year of 2015 but still numerous nations are still behind the due date. But some countries which are continuously working in the reduction of poverty which includes, National program for Security and Food by Nigeria has doubled the wages of farmers and increase production from the year of 2001 to 2007 (Modi et al., 2005). Similar Malawi in 2005 has gained almost 43% of fool deficits and accomplished 53% of excess food in 2000, through the national program of input subsidy. Likewise in Ghana many people who were starving dropped by around 74%, to almost 9% of the aggregate population in between the year of 1991 and 2004. Somewhere around 1996 and 2006-07 kid hunger, diminished from 22.2% to around 5.9% in north east Brazil (Sachs and McArthur, 2005).
            


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