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What will it take to end poverty by 2030? : Comments

By Babatunde Omilola, published 19/10/2015

Strong domestic political engagement and initiatives around the 2030 Agenda are crucial ingredients for achieving the historic goal of ending poverty by 2030.

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Whilst the poor are expected to try and feed unlimited children, as they cannot afford family planning, they have little hope. We could of course provide it, but choose to a large extent not to, due to our religious lobbyists. Shame on them.
Posted by Yabby, Monday, 19 October 2015 8:41:44 PM
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VK3AUU & Hasbeen, spot on.

Rhian & ybgirp, your way of doing things has been ruthlessly imposed on the world's poor ever since WW2 & is still progressively worsening world poverty. When you are in a hole stop digging.

Yabby, half true, every Christian on earth other than Catholics would gladly donate container loads of condoms to third world nations if it would lower birth rates.
Posted by imacentristmoderate, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 12:42:05 PM
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Imacentristmoderate

The proportion of the world’s population living in absolute poverty has fallen steadily in recent decades to its lowest level in human history.

Specifically, in the context of this article, The Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of the world’s population in extreme poverty between 1990 and 2015 was met five years early, in 2010.

According to the UN, “the proportion of undernourished people has decreased from 23 per cent in 1990-1992 to 15 per cent in 2010-2012”

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/Goal_1_fs.pdf

There is still a long way to go, but we are most emphatically heading in the right direction on global poverty reduction.
Posted by Rhian, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 12:54:19 PM
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While they I understand 99% of wealth is controlled by 1% of the people, I will bet that 1% don't have near as many children per capita as the 99%.

Control breeding, esspecially where there are little to no prospects for the offspring.

Such action is also needed in our country as well.
Posted by rehctub, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 5:32:57 PM
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*every Christian on earth other than Catholics would gladly donate container loads of condoms*

Not quite correct. Fundamentalist Xtians are as fanatical as some Catholics in preaching abstinence. The Guttmacher Institute has a number of publications highlighting the unmet need of hundreds of millions of third world women, when it comes to family planning.
First world financing could easily provide it, but the Catholic lobby, even in the UN, is too strong. So they keep popping out more babies than they want, which means more hunger, poverty and misery. If third world women had the options which Australian women take for granted, the problem would be solved. Yet we don't even use our foreign aid money for the purpose as we are too scared to put religious noses out of joint
Posted by Yabby, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 5:59:00 PM
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Rhian, all those stats are manufactured by humanities academics or the UN & should be viewed with extreme scepticism. Ethiopia is in famine every year through over population, courtesy of Sir Bob Geldof.

Yabby, you are still being a bit too harsh, the fundies are a small minority of Protestant Christians.
Posted by imacentristmoderate, Tuesday, 20 October 2015 6:39:00 PM
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