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Shaping the 21th Century:

the Objective of halvingPoverty till 2015

Ewelina KaczwkaMPE study programme

Offenburg, October 2009


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Plan

1. Introduction

2. OECD historical overview

3. Overview of The Contribution ofDevelopment Co-operation

4. World reaction to the Objectives

5. Todays world situation of the poverty issue6. References


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Introduction

21th Century

Are we free of existentialproblems?

Is the Poverty one of theworldwide common problems??


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OECD historical overview

The Organisation for Economic Co-operationand Development

International organisation Characteristic of the membership: democracy and

free-market economy

Originally the Organisation for European

Economic Co-operation (OEEC), 1948 Reformation into OECD in 1961


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OECD historical overview

Founder StatesDark blue Other Member StatesLighten blue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_for_Economic_Co-operation_and_Development (19. October 2009)
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Overview of The Contribution of

Development Co-operation

1996 meeting of members representativescalled the Development AssistanceCommittee of the Organisation of EconomicCo-operation and Development

Purchase:

to reflect on development co-operation

to put forward strategies for the future


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Overview of The Contribution

of Development Co-operation

The eight goals assumed to achieve:1. Halve the number of people living on less than $1 a day2. Achieve universal primary education

3. Promote gender equality and empower women4. Reduce by two thirds the under-five mortality rate5. Reduce by three quarters the number of women who die

due to childbirth

6. HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases preventionprograms7. Ensure environmental sustainability and halve the number

of people without access to safe drinking water

8. Develop a global partnership for development


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Worlds reaction

to the Objectives

Response in form of:

Researches about the scale of Poverty

Analyses of the economy of divelopingcountries ans forecast about possibilities

Founding of special organisations

Monitoring the dimension of Poverty andother goals

Increase of the interest of press and media


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Worlds reaction:

Halving Poverty by 2015: We Can Actually Make It Happen(Fragment of the text of the 2003 Commonwealth Lecture - 12 March 2003)

() a feeling is getting stronger in me everydaythat very few people are really serious aboutreaching the goal of halving poverty by 2015.Leaders who made this bold announcement wentback to their other important commitmentsfeeling happy that they have captured the world'simagination.

(Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank)


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Todays world situationof the Poverty issue


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http://www.eauk.org/articles/keep-the-promise.cfm

650 Anglican bishops, their spouses and prominent faith leaders walked

in unity to send a message that the opportunity this world has to endextreme poverty should be grasped.The marchers asked world leaders to stand by the promises they hadmade to the world's poorest and recommit to seeing the MillenniumDevelopment Goals achieved by 2015

25 July 2008

Thursday'sLondon march


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Progress in

Africain meeting MDGs by the target date has picked up

although a lot remains to be done. () Sub-Saharan Africa has madeencouraging progress toward reducing poverty between 1990 and 2005. ()the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 per day declined from 57%to 51%. () projections show that the current economic crisis is likely toaffect the economies of the region negatively, slowing down progress towardachievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In this climate,

important efforts must be made to avoid further increases in poverty ()

A Guinean farmer atwork, pulling out theweeds in his rice crop,suported by NERICA(New Rice for Africa) in

Farahan, Guinea. UNDP/Dennis Yeandle

http://www.undp.org/africa/poverty.shtml(22.10.2009)
http://www.undp.org/africa/poverty.shtmlhttp://www.undp.org/africa/poverty.shtml


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The Indonesian economy is growing. But so, unfortunately,is poverty

WHEN two scavengers died last week under a landslide atJakarta's main rubbish dump, the extensive television coveragethat resulted provided a too-rare glimpse into the plight of some ofIndonesia's poorest people. And their ranks are swelling. Afterdeclining for six years the number of poor people has increasedsharply. Some 39m, 18% of the population of 220m, are nowofficially poor, according to data just released by the government's

statistics bureau, 4m more than in 2005.

IndonesiaAlmost one in five

http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7925064


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Asia

The world is on track to halve the global poverty rate by2015 and achieve the number one target of theMillennium Development Goals (MDGs), largely due toprogress made in East Asia, particularly China,

according to the United Nations latest MDG report.

Dr Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Secretary of the UNEconomic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific said

the region should be proud of its achievements but therewere still many countries lagging behind.

Poverty rate in Asia to be halved by 2015

By Amelia Kwok | 11 September 2008


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References

I. Development Assistance Committee, Shaping the 21st Century: the Contribution ofDevelopment Co-operation, Paris, May 1996

II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_for_Economic_Cooperation_and_Development (19. October 2009)

III. http://www.worldvision.com.au/Issues/Transforming_Lives___Child_Sponsorship/W

hat_is_this_about_/Halving_poverty_by_2015.aspx (19. October 2009)

IV. http://www.undp.org/africa/poverty.shtml (22. October 2009)

V. http://www.eauk.org/articles/keep-the-promise.cfm (22. October 2009)

VI. http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7925064

VII. http://www.futuregov.net/articles/2008/sep/11/poverty-rate-asia-be-halved-2015/

(22. October 2009)VIII. http://www.da-academy.org/Halvepoverty.html (19. October 2009)


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