Sociology 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Child Poverty, Welfare Fraud, United Nations Millennium Declaration
16 Dec 2017
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Looking at how much people spend around the world on food for the family. Measurements: human development index (hdi) (1) deprivation of a long healthy life life expectancy. Poverty affects your life expectancy long-term, even having exited poverty (2) deprivation of knowledge literacy (3) deprivation of decent living standards gdp. Note: all these factors are included in the millennium goals: hpi-2 industrialized countries. Poverty line is critized, often a more abstract concept is relevant. Why should we care: least developed countries will experience significant population growth compared to more developed countries, europe and russia may experience a population decrease. The millennium development goals: dream of reality (video: we must not fail the billions who look to the international community to fulfill the promise of the millennium declaration for a better world. Let us meet in september to keep the promise . More involved in politics and civil responsibilities.
