Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Official Development Assistance, Infant Mortality
16 Feb 2016
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About 1. 4 billion people in the world live in absolute poverty . A condition of life so characterizes by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid, surroundings, high infant mortality, and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable definition of human decency. 6/3 million children under the age of 5 dies each year from malnutrition and lack of basic care, among other causes. Close to 21000 children under the age of five dies from these causes every day. The majority of citizens in europe, north america, japan, new zealand, and elsewhere, are absolutely wealthy . They possess a significant amount of income above the level necessary to provide for the basic human needs of themselves and their dependents. How do we the absolutely wealthy respond to absolute poverty. Currently, the canadian government gives about 0. 27 percent of gross domestic. This is much less than we gave in 1975, when we gave 0. 53 percent of gdp.
