IAFS 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Poverty Reduction, Global Health, Illiberal Democracy
26 Dec 2016
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Eliminating absolute poverty by 2030 is the set goal of the world bank. But eliminating means bringing it down to 3% of the world"s population, which is 300 million people. Continuing same rate of reduction in poverty will be difficult because (pg. 1) 84 million in china remain in extreme poverty, and china account for a large proportion of the numbers globally. 2) places like nigeria, pakistan, somalia, north korea, and drc haven"t even started rapid economic growth. 3) those left to reach are the furthest, the very poorest, therefore hardest to lift out. Poverty reduction depends on economic growth and distribution. Improvements in health and education outcomes counts on: strong leadership in developing countries and in global health organizations, robust investments in research and development (family planning, immunization, disease treatment, technologies), and continued development assistance for health (pg. These will all be expensive, but the payoff is 9 - 29x higher (pg.
