Touching the poor: Re-thinking on millennium development goals by promoting participatory governance and local development

Though they improve upon the millennium development goals (MDGs), the new sustainable development goals (SDGs) have important draw-backs. First, in assessing present deprivations, they draw our attention to historical comparisons. Yet, that things were even worse before is morally irrelevant; what matters is how much better things could be now. Second, like the MDGs, the SDGs fail to specify any division of labor to ensure success. Therefore, should progress stall, we won't know who is responsible to get us back on track. We won't “end poverty in all its forms everywhere” without an agreement on who is to do what. Third, although the SDGs contain a goal calling for inequality reduction, this goal is specified so that the reduction need not start till 2029. Such delay would cause enormous death and suffering among the poor and enable the rich to shape national and supranational design in their own favor.

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Welfare Impact of the Lady Health Workers Programme in Pakistan

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v53i2pp.119-143 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 119-143

Author(s):

Shujaat Farooq ◽

Durr-E-Nayab . ◽

G. M. Arif

Keyword(s):

Millennium Development Goals ◽

Health Workers ◽

Health Issues ◽

Health Targets ◽

Major Health ◽

Welfare Impact ◽

The Poor ◽

Rural And Urban ◽

Development Goals ◽

Cycle Of Poverty

With the year 2015 fast approaching, Pakistan is not likely to achieve most of the health targets set in the Millennium Development Goals [Pakistan (2010)]. High levels of child and maternal mortality and child malnutrition are among the major health challenges facing the country. Along with this enhanced vulnerability for children and women there is also an economic divide in the society because these health challenges are more profound for the poor segment of the population than for the better off. Another divide is between the rural and urban populations due to concentration of health facilities in urban centres of the country. The high cost of dealing with health issues adversely affects the poor and rural population, lowering their productivity and limiting their lifetime achievements. Without substantially improved health outcomes it is impossible to break out of the cycle of poverty [OECD (2003)].

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From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals Through Informal Cross-Border Trading: An Escape for the Poor in a Suffocating National Economy in Gweru, Zimbabwe

Sustainable Development in Africa - World Sustainability Series ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-74693-3_34 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 613-632

Author(s):

Beauty Dzawanda ◽

Mark Makomborero Matsa

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

National Economy ◽

Millennium Development Goals ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Cross Border ◽

The Poor ◽

Development Goals

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Microfinance for the Poor in Viet Nam

Journal of Business and Economics ◽

10.15341/jbe(2155-7950)/06.10.2019/006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 550-557

Author(s):

Huy Nguyen ◽

Keyword(s):

Millennium Development Goals ◽

Poverty Reduction ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Viet Nam ◽

International Standard ◽

The Poor ◽

Long Time ◽

Development Goals

Most of the research on hunger elimination and poverty reduction in the global scope as well as in Vietnam shows that microfinance is an effective tool which has been successfully applied in many countries for the purpose of fighting against poverty and hunger. In general, the performance of hunger elimination and poverty reduction in Vietnam has gained impressive achievements in accordance with proposed Millennium Development Goals. However, the efficiency of microfinance service for the poor is still inadequate. Together with success in the innovation of legal framework, microfinance market becomes busy but in a muddle, with the principles in which the market is still governed by subsidiary lending mechanism. In addition, Vietnam microfinance system is still at a start in comparison with the regional and international standard. The writer would like to share his opinions and propose some solutions and recommendations in order to support microfinance organizations to stably operate and to help the poor in Vietnam for a long time and in a sustainable manner.

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The Lambeth Conference 2008 and the Millennium Development Goals: A Botswana Perspective

Journal of Anglican Studies ◽

10.1017/s1740355309990143 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 229-242

Author(s):

Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba

Keyword(s):

Millennium Development Goals ◽

Human Sexuality ◽

Hiv And Aids ◽

Trade Policies ◽

Life And Death ◽

The Poor ◽

Development Goals ◽

Spiritual Energy ◽

The University ◽

The Church

AbstractThe Bishops of the Anglican Communion met on the campus of the University of Kent at Canterbury, England, for the Lambeth Conference in July 2008. The Conference took place at a time when the Anglican Communion was going through turbulence over the issue of human sexuality. Accordingly, there was much expectation that the Conference would inter alia discuss and come up with the way forward on the issue of homosexuality. Prudently, the Conference’s focus rested on the real Mission of the Church, epitomized by the Walk of Witness on July 24, 2009 from Whitehall and Westminster to Lambeth Palace. There, Archbishop Rowan Williams spoke of the Communion’s commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is within this context that this article seeks to discuss the issue of the MDGs in the context of the Lambeth Conference, from the perspective of Botswana. It is my intention to show that the Anglican Communion should be focused on the life and death issues of eradicating abject poverty, HIV and AIDS, malaria, bad governance, unjust trade policies and environment, rather than wasting valuable spiritual energy on the ‘luxury’ of human sexuality which is a non-issue for the poor.

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