SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Official Development Assistance, Millennium Development Goals, Gross National Income

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Ecology
• Course: SOCECOL E8
• Professor: John M.Whiteley

Document Summary

Develop a global partnership for development: millennium declaration. In 2000, 189 nations made a promise to free people from extreme poverty and multiple deprivations. This pledge became the eight millennium development goals to be achieved by: in september 2010, the world recommitted itself to accelerate progress towards these goals. Trends in the prevalence of undernourishment remain unchanged with south-eastern asia, Eastern asia and latin america and the caribbean likely to achieve the hunger-reduction target by 2015. Among the remaining regions which are unlikely to achieve the target if past trends persist, the percentage of population estimated to be suffering from chronic hunger in sub- Saharan africa and southern asia is worryingly high at 27% and 20% respectively. 2000, reaching a record billion in 2010. Removal of the burden of unsustainable debt from many poor countries is another area in which the international environment has improved since 2000. But recent financial turmoil has caused some backsliding.