Solutions

MEDICAL/HEALTH ECONOMIC SOCIALMany diseases Unemployment Droughts & floodsHIV/AIDS crisis Not enough money to live DeforestationLack of medicines No access to loans Children leave school to work Lack of heath care workers Too little land to grow food ... No time to study Lack of Poor access to healthcare High debt Less or no school for girlsNot enough food Low international aid Girls marry youngPoor food (malnutrition) Unfair trade ‘rules’ Many children born and dieUnsafe water Low health spending Child soldiers / injuries Poor sanitation Low education spending Landmines scare people Women die in childbirth Ongoing war Not enough health education

THE CYCLE OF POVERTY

Adapted from Counterpoints: Exploring Canadian Issues, Cranny and Moles, Prentice Hall, 2001

UN “Millennium Development Goals” (MDGs)… to be achieved by 2015

• Cut extreme poverty and hunger by 50 per cent• Allow every child to have an elementary education• Empower women and promote equality between women and men• Reduce by 66 per cent the number of children who die before the age of five• Reduce by 75 per cent the number of women who die during childbirth • Reverse the spread of diseases, especially HIV/AIDS and malaria• Ensure environmental sustainability• Create a global partnership for development with targets for aid, trade and debt relief

Obstacles to Development

Lack of money for social (public) spending, especially on health care and education

• Insufficient international aid

• High debt burden• Unfair trade conditions (tariffs, subsidies)• High military spending

Existing social realities

• Natural disasters• Environmental degradation … an increasingly critical factor• Conflict• Lack of basic education (especially for girls)• Infectious diseases (especially HIV/Aids, water-born diseases, TB)• Unstable or ineffective government