The Millennium Development Goals

The statement “The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have not improved life for the world’s poorest people” Advocates that the MDGs have not improved the lives of the world’s poorest people in any aspect. In some areas for example South East Asia there were improvements in health and wealth, for the very poor located chiefly in Sub-Saharan Africa this was not the case. For whom are located under the brandt line.

The first MDGs aims to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. What the UN are trying to achieve with this goal is to raise the amount of money people earn per day and to decrease the amount of people who suffer from hunger. The proportion of people that earn $1.25[1] per day and the proportion of marginalized people that suffer from

This leads them to not getting a well-paid job. Therefore the people will remain poor. Another MDG conceived by the UN was to achieve universal primary education. In Sub-Saharan Africa there are over 32 million children that are of primary school age that remain uneducated [4]. If we look more into a national scale and we examine the country of Ghana which is located in the West of Africa. In Ghana only 53% of children aged 6-11 in the Northern region attempt primary school. Also because of child labour many children are not capable of attending school and in achieving primary education. These factors prove that the world’s poorest people’s lives have not improved so far. In 2012 77.8% [3] of the world’s poorest people live in Sub-Saharan Africa and in 2012 43% [3]of the people located there are living under the poverty line. The causes for the extreme poverty in these areas are due to geographical factors such as climate, lack of resources, environment and

Since starting point of the MDGs there has been an improvement in poverty rates. In 1990 60% of the population was living under the poverty line and in 2008 it has massively decreased to 13% [5]. The main reason for the decrease in poverty rates is due to the rise in economic development and an increase in the quantity of production in South East Asia. As far as economic development goes between 1990 and 2015 there has been an increase in foreign direct investments and also in transnational corporations which means that companies from all over the world can produce their products in for example Philippines , Indonesia and Thailand. This also means that investors can make cross-border investments which can cause for a lasting interest in one country to an Due to these circumstances people in South East Asia have encountered an increase in work opportunities. This way the costs of living become more affordable. This also meant for a decrease in marginalized people. In Thailand the poverty rate has decreased substantially over the last 30 years. From 1986 to 2014 the poverty rate has declined from 67% to 11%.[6] The cause of this is because of economic development , TNC , FDI and a rise in the incomes of the