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ENDING POVERTY
United Nations Sustainability Goal (Poverty)
In the year 2015, the United Nations came up with a total of 15 Sustainable Development Goals (United Nations Development Program UNDP, 2022). The very first sustainable development goal (christened SDG 1) concerns itself with bringing an end to poverty. More specifically, this particular goal seeks to end poverty in all its forms everywhere (United Nations, 2022). It would be prudent to note that poverty is associated with a number of undesirable outcomes at the personal and societal/community levels. Some of the negative impacts of poverty at the individual level are inclusive of lack of access to quality healthcare, limited educational opportunities, etc. At the societal level, poverty results in poor living conditions for families (which is associated with poor health outcomes, i.e. spread of disease), increased crime rates, increased healthcare costs (i.e. as a consequence of spread of disease), etc. Towards this end, the relevance of putting in place strategies meant to reign in poverty cannot be overstated.
There are various strategies and solutions that have been proposed in the past to end poverty. Some of the said efforts have paid off. Indeed, according to World Bank (2020), extreme poverty has been on a steady decline for the past two and a half decades. This trend, as the World Bank (2020) further observes was, however,...…their various agencies, business enterprises, non-governmental organizations, municipal organizations, global bodies such as the World Bank, the general public, etc. If all these stakeholders were to unite under one umbrella with the primary goal of ending poverty, the said goal would likely be accomplished within a few years. This is more so the case given that each stakeholder would bring on board certain unique skillsets, knowhow, as well as resources. I would argue that this unity of purpose is possible to achieve if only everybody was concerned about the issue of poverty and its impact to society. Indeed, the fact that more than 10% of the global population lives on less than $2 dollars a…
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World Bank (2020). Global Action Urgently Needed to Halt Historic Threats to Poverty Reduction. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2020/10/07/global-action-urgently-needed-to-halt-historic-threats-to-poverty-reduction
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