Ending poverty in all its forms everywhere
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The United Nations has had a development agenda for the world, and the development agenda that has been pursued up until 2015 has been the Millennium Development Goals which come to a close in 2015. To succeed the MDGs are the Sustainable Development Goals which have been adopted by the United Nations.
Targets
To "end poverty in all its forms everywhere" is the first sustainable development goal proposed by the Open Working Group as part of the UN's global Post-2015 Development Agenda. SDG number one has five targets.[1]
SDG 1: Target Number 1.1
SDG Target Number 1.1 is to "by 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day." The Millennium Development Goals reduced the number of people living in extreme poverty globally from 1.9 billion to 836 million,[2] thus over a billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty from 1990. In low income countries over half of the population lived in extreme poverty, and as a result of the MDGs this rate reduced to 14% in 2015.[2]
SDG 1: Target Number 1.2
Target 1.2 of SDG number one seeks to halve extreme poverty in social groups based on age and gender.[1] Poverty affects different social groups differently; its most devastating effects are on children, to whom it poses a great threat.[3] It affects their education, health, nutrition and security. It also negatively affects the emotional, spiritual and emotional development of children through the environment it creates.[3][4][5] Women suffer from poverty because they are burdened with manual work because men are expected to provide food for the family. The poverty that women experience affects their health, which reduces their life expectancy to almost that of as men in developing countries.[5]
Criticism
According to critics from The Economist, all other sustainable development goals are founded on achieving SDG number one.[6] They said trying to alleviate poverty and achieving the other sustainable development goals will require about US$2 trillion to 3 trillion per annum for the next 15 years, which critics do not see as being feasible.[6] The reduction in the number of people living in abject poverty has been criticized as a result of the growth of China; the MDGs have been mistakenly credited for this drop.[7]
A report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) criticizes the efforts of the SDGs as not ambitious enough. Instead of aiming for an end to poverty by 2030, the report "An Ambitious Development Goal: Ending Hunger and Undernutrition by 2025" by Shenggen Fan and Paul Polman calls for a greater emphasis on eliminating hunger and undernutrition and achieving that in 5 years less, by 2025.[8]
References
- ^ a b "Open Working Group proposal for Sustainable Development Goals". UN. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ^ a b "How much has global poverty fallen over the Lat 25 years". Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ^ a b "Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger". unicef. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ^ Clark, D, A. (2006). Elgar Companion to Development Studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. p. 54.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b Anderson, Margaret (2013). Sociology: The Essentials. United Kingdom: Wadsworth Cengage. p. 215.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ a b "The 169 Commandments". The Economist. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- ^ "Extreme Poverty Has Dropped in Half Since 1990". Priceonomics. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ^ Fan, Shenggen and Polman, Paul. 2014. An ambitious development goal: Ending hunger and undernutrition by 2025. In 2013 Global food policy report. Eds. Marble, Andrew and Fritschel, Heidi. Chapter 2. Pp 15-28. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).