POLB90H3 Chapter Notes -Emerging Power, Global Governance, Neoliberalism
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Today we live in a world that has enough food to feed everyone, and resources as well as technology to provide basic services such as primary education health services, and social assistance. Issue is that the world is organized in such a way that approximately 1. 5 to. 2. 5 billion people have little to no access to the most basic human needs. Millennium development goals made big promises (but these promises are coming from the rich countries who know it is they that are keeping developing nations down) 149 leaders signed the millennium declaration (the basis for the mdg s) which identified a set of goals that would halve the amount of extreme poverty around the world by 2015. Mdg s not first time that eradicating world poverty was discussed. In 1947, the universal declaration of human rights envisioned a world in which:
