This is a summary of a Davos session on "The Post-2015 Goals: Inspiring a New Generation to Act" on the eradication of footing poverty as well as the millennium evolution goals. It featured, amid others, David Cameron, Bono, as well as Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (the Nigerian Finance Minister as well as the most impressive somebody I heard at Davos):
- David Cameron: tackling poverty is a holistic issue. We can't tackle poverty without tackling climate change, governance, corruption, justice, democracy, sex equality. Many of these reasons are why Democratic People's Republic of Korea is misfortunate but Republic of Korea is rich
- Growth is insufficient. It must endure inwards areas that practice jobs for misfortunate people (e.g. agriculture, housing), as well as nosotros must practice a social security net
- People desire 2 things: a job, as well as a voice. Can't simply focus on the former
- As a result, the Millennium Development Goals (established next the 2000 Millennium Summit of the United Nations) encompass viii dissimilar areas:
- Eradicate extreme poverty as well as hunger
- Achieve universal principal education
- Promote sex equality as well as empowering women
- Reduce nestling mortality
- Improve maternal health
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, other diseases
- Ensure environmental sustainability
- Develop a global partnership for development
- Bono: I write lyrics similar I write poetry. But, goals must endure the opposite: difficult as well as precise.
- Bono:
- We should operate out of the agency of misfortunate people. Ask them what they want, rather than presuming that nosotros know
- Capitalism tin sack endure a peachy creative force, but too a peachy destructive force. Even if it's non immoral, it's amoral
- Bono: to me, transparency is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than of import than debt cancelation
- If a theatre is registered on the NYSE, it must issue what it pays executives. But, declared as well as actual pay is different.
- Companies ever entrance hall against transparency. The American Petroleum Institute lobbied against the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which requires oil, gas, as well as mining companies to reveal the payments they brand to governments for extractive projects
- The regime must too endure open. The enquiry shouldn't endure "are nosotros opened upwards for business?" but "are nosotros open"?
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Nigerian Finance Minister):
- Nigeria is forward-thinking compared to the residue of Africa, but shouldn't endeavour to endure an oasis inwards a desert, because the desert ever wins
- Africa needs to motion beyond extracting resources as well as utilisation them to practice wealth as well as equality
- Nigeria's policies are targeted. Use conditional cash transfers to encourage kids to attend school. Don't simply have aid, but utilisation it to leverage individual sector resources better
- We write off whole countries when there's a fighting of sectarian conflict. But, fifty-fifty inwards such countries, nosotros tin sack endeavour to larn kids into school. As peace is beingness brokered, the adjacent generation tin sack larn an education
- Cameron:
- I reallocated the assistance budget from Bharat as well as PRC to other countries. Bharat as well as PRC lead keep resources to aid themselves
- Some of the fastest-growing countries inwards the footing are inwards Africa. But, there's lots of cherry record hindering merchandise betwixt African countries. Thus, lots of infrastructure has been construct to export goods out of Africa, rather than merchandise inside Africa
- Ngozi: sex inequality isn't express to developing countries. Only 15% of Davos is female. But, because Nigeria is poorer, nosotros tin sack to the lowest degree afford it. I lead keep to lead keep the bull past times the horns
- Girls' literacy is key. With the UK's Department For International Development, nosotros pioneered conditional cash transfers to larn kids into school. Attendance rose 40%
- Ngozi: everyone agrees nosotros should invest inwards developing countries
- But, nosotros typically intend of investment beingness inwards difficult assets - edifice schools as well as infrastructure
- We demand to invest inwards soft skills: preparation midwives, teaching a woman bring upwards to give H2O to a babe alongside diarrhea
- An educated adult woman has 2.1 kids, an uneducated adult woman 8.9
- Cameron: the United Nations must grip on a laid upwards of specific, measurable, inspiring goals that apply to everyone. We shouldn't lead keep kind out goals for the rich as well as poor. Anti-corruption, justice, transparency are goals for all countries
- Jasmine Whitbread (CEO of Save the Children): goals are universal, but the strategy to accomplish them may differ across countries.
- Tidjane Thiam (CEO of Prudential): nosotros don't desire to utter nearly Africa changing. Africa is withal the same - it's weather condition as well as resources are the same. Instead, nosotros desire to utter nearly Africans changing - a alter inwards people's attitude
- Bono: adjacent twelvemonth volition endure the 30th twelvemonth of Live Aid. I promise that Bob Geldof as well as I are simply guests - that nosotros won't demand Live Aid whatever more
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