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GLOBAL CRISIS AND THE MDGs PERSPECTIVES, IMPACTS AND POLICY OPTIONS
Selim JahanDirector, Poverty Practice
October 2009
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Present crisis – multi-regional, multi-dimensional (3 Fs – food, fuels and financial) and volatile
Crisis began in developed world
Crises within the crisis – regional and country specificity
Economic and human impacts
Global and national action needed
AN EIGHT-POINT AGENDAFIVE INITIAL OBSERVATIONS
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Incidence of extreme poverty declined from 42 percent to 31 percent
Proportion of malnourished people declined form 20 percent to 17 percent
Child mortality rate – from 106 to 74 per one thousand live births
Net primary enrolment – increasedfrom 83 percent to 89% percent
Number of people newly HIV-infecteddeclined from 3.0 to 2.7 million
Share of female seats in parliamentsincreased from 10 percent to 17 percent
AN EIGHT-POINT AGENDAPRE-CRISIS MDG PROGESS
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An additional 55 to 90 million peoplewill be in poverty again
Number of working poor may swell by more than 200 million
An additional 20 million people will gohungry every night
Global unemployment may rise by 30Million
Between 200,000 and 400,000 more babies may die each year by now and2015
AN EIGHT-POINT AGENDAIMPACTS OF THE CRISIS ON THE MDGs -GLOBAL
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MDG progress reversed in manyCountries and decelerated in others
Countries, on track, now off-track
Middle-income countries also affected
More and deeper pockets of deprivations
Vulnerability of countries and People increased
AN EIGHT-POINT AGENDAIMPACTS OF THE CRISIS ON THE MDGs – COUNTRY-LEVEL
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Reviving economic growththrough appropriate strategies
Stimulus package if fiscal spaceavailable
Ensuring basic social services to poor people
Employment creation and publicWorks programme
Social protection and socialSafety nets
AN EIGHT-POINT AGENDAPOLICY OPTIONS - NATIONAL
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Part of the developed world’sstimulus package devoted topoor countries
Increasing ODA level to poorcountries
Maintaining trade opportunitiesfor the developing world
Increased support from multilateral organizations
South-South collaboration
AN EIGHT-POINT AGENDAPOLICY OPTIONS - GLOBAL
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