Objectives Of The Millennium Development Goals

Between 1990 and 2015, half the ratio of people who are major sufferers of hunger.

A great paradox is that there is more population in countries with less GDP while less population in the world with higher GDP. This needs to be addressed by empowering people to help each other and by making schemes for human development. Murdoch (1980) highlighted the relationship between world hunger, growing population, and increasing environmental degradation in the developing countries. It was seen that population explosion and lack of food supply are symptoms of poverty and it is hard to reduce due to internal political-economic structure of developing world and unequal ties with the rich

However, in the developing world, food security is often low, because large numbers of people experience dire poverty. Food may be available, but that is irrelevant to those who lack the resources to buy it. This is a major problem in many countries that export food to richer nations. This illustrates the global inequity in food production and distribution that has been difficult to solve or alleviate, despite intense efforts in the latter half of the 20

East Asia is a diverse region housing some of the largest nations in the world as well as some of the smallest. Remarkably, over the past 20 years, the region of East Asia has experienced overwhelming success and growth rates. East Asia currently ranks as one of the top regions in the world in terms of economic success and growth. According to Thomas Leipziger, (Leipziger, 3)

The first step to any problem solving process is examining the scope of the task and educing any complications of proposed solutions. Above all the chaos and mess begetted from the current policies today, it is helpful to unravel and understand what global poverty is. However, poverty is not easy to define because “national poverty lines vary greatly across the world, from under $1 per person per day to over $40” (Ravallion). Because of cultural peculiarities, most of today’s problems relate to different issues such as accessibility to basic needs, adequate health and nutrition, and other problems that may be present in one country but not in another.

Asia’s economic transformation is most evident in three areas. First Asian economies have sustained high investment in infrastructure, housing, Industry and human capital. Second, these economies are increasingly sophisticated and integrated across the region and with the rest of the world. And third,

We entered the 21st Century with 6.6 billion people and our generation’s challenges become bigger, thus extreme poverty and global politics should be more seriously addressed in order to bring more equality and fairness in the world.

The Third World was a term coined to distinguish nations that neither aligned with the First World developed countries nor the Second World Communist Countries during the Cold War. However, modern day usage denotes countries with low Human Development Index (HDI) that suffer from political, social and economic underdevelopment. The United Nations finds "Third World" term slightly pejorative and prefers the label "less developed countries" (LDCs). Terminology notwithstanding, LDCs suffer from underdevelopment and poverty. "At the grassroots level, economic underdevelopment connotes

UNICEF has set Millenium development goals, which 189 countries have signed in September 2000. The goals reveal the extent importance of UNICEF’s work. First goals are to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger meaning in practice that the amount of people living less than one dollar per day or suffer for hunger should halve between 1990 and 2015. Furthermore, primary education should be ensured for all children, also for girls. Child mortality and maternal health are also primary goals of UNICEF. There are also set goals to combat AIDS/HIV, malaria and other diseases, to ensure environmental sustainability and to develop global partnership for development. All of the Millenium goals concerns basic needs of life; food, health, income and education. The amount of people who do not have these is devastating. It cannot be denied that UNICEF’s work is

The Millennium Development Goals are a set of eight goals designed to better human kind across the globe, on a variety of issues. This was signed into action by the United Nations, with a hope of achieving these objectives between the years 2000 to 2015. Although there was certainly measurable improvement in every goal across the board, ultimately, several of the goals were not met, due in large to the goals set having been unrealistic from the start when considering the condition some of the worst of these developing nations were already in (Clemens, 2005). The Sustainable Development Goals are a continuation of these goals, with additional goals, as well as pin pointing some of the issues found throughout the past initiative. Although the Millennium Development Goals have displayed a unified push to bettering the world, it is clear that not enough has been done yet to help some of the most impoverished nations in the world, most notably those of Sub-Saharan Africa.

The U.N. has been trying to eradicate world hunger and poverty since its inception in 1945. The answer to these issues have been Article 25 and the Millennium goals, but what are they? Article 25 is the set of human rights that govern the right to adequate living. It states everyone has the right to adequate health, shelter and general life, for them and their family. It also states “motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance.” The Millennium goals are goals that the UN have set to further improve human rights around the world in the 21st century. These goals include the eradication of world hunger, promote gender equality and provide free education for all.

In October 2000, the International Development Goals were articulated as the MDGs in a joint report by the UN, OECD, World Bank and the IMF (Saith, 2006; Sen G & Mukherjee A, 2014), which composed of 8 goals accompanied by 21 targets and 60 indicators in order to measure progress towards the achievement of each of those goals (Johnson R, 2010). These goals and their related targets and indicators dominated international development discourse as the standard for development by various international organisations (Sen G & Mukherjee A, 2013; S. Fukuda-Parr, 2016), as they were aimed to improve the living conditions, peace and security, the environment, and human rights and democracy, eradicate poverty and global imbalances by 2015. The breadth and depth of the Declaration necessarily meant choosing a few set of goals, targets and indicators to guide policies and monitor outcomes. However, some scholars like (Langford, 2010; Amin, 2006; Sen, 2013 and Saith, 2006), argue that the set of goals are reductionist, simplistic and do not do justice to the Millennium Declaration.

The performance of East Asian nations, particularly Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and most recently, mainland China, is largely attributable to the East Asian Model, which accounts for the following notable observations: sustained economic growth at high levels for long periods, social, political and economic diversity, and economic activities that are industrialized, export-oriented and socially beneficial in nature. The East Asian Model is characterized by the following elements: investment and trade-driven growth, active governmental involvement, strong regional cooperation and economic development driven towards poverty reduction.

For about twenty years, East-Asian countries were held up as economic idols. They were hailed as the ideal models for strong economic growth of developing countries because of their high savings and investment rates, autocratic political systems, export-oriented business, restricted domestic markets, government capital allocation, and controlled financial systems.

Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger (“Extreme poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 1990”)