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Eradicating Poverty and Stabilizing Population By: Douglas Gagne, Peter Gibson, Amanda Ledford

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Eradicating Poverty and Stabilizing Population. By: Douglas Gagne, Peter Gibson, Amanda Ledford. The Necessary Steps. Education Health Stabilizing Population Rescuing Failed States Total Agenda and Budget. The Benefits of Education. Reduces fertility rates Enhances agricultural yields - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Eradicating Poverty and Stabilizing Population

Eradicating Poverty and Stabilizing Population

By: Douglas Gagne, Peter Gibson, Amanda Ledford

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The Necessary Steps

• Education• Health

• Stabilizing Population• Rescuing Failed States

• Total Agenda and Budget

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The Benefits of Education

• Reduces fertility rates• Enhances agricultural yields• Institutional means to educate children about

AIDS

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Remaining Challenges to Universal Education

• Teachers being decimated by AIDS.– Scholarships for

teacher training within country borders.

• Accessing remote portions of the population.– Girls Advisory

Committees

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Case Example: “Education For All”

• World Bank-sponsored plan that grants financial aid to support any plan with the following criteria:• Sensible plan to reach

universal education.

• Commit a meaningful share of its own resources.

• Practice transparent budgeting and accounting.

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The Price Tag of Universal Education

• $10 Billion for children• $4 Billion for adults• $6 Billion for school

lunch program • TOTAL: $20 Billion

Est. Lifetime Cost of Nimitz-Class Carrier ~$22Bil.

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But Costs are even higher…

• Losses in productivity due to hunger

• Farmers with even a basic education have higher crop yields

• Lost opportunity to raise AIDS awareness

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Health:

• Degenerative vs. infectious diseases:–Sanitation in developing countries–Oral Rehydration Therapy–Inoculations

• HIV/AIDS • Smoking

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Ensuring Safe and Reliable Water

– Problem: Waste treatment is expensive and wastes valuable water supplies.

– Solution:Dry Compost Toilets

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A nongovernmental group that began in Bangladesh in 1972, and is focused on

helping poor women

•Taught mothers in Bangladesh how to prepare a simple oral rehydration solution from a measured amount of salt and sugar to water that treats diarrhea. •Succeeded in dramatically reducing child/infant deaths in that country•UNICEF picked up the idea in their program from worldwide diarrheal disease treatment which helped reduce children deaths from diarrhea from 4.6 million in 1980 to 1.6 million in 2006

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Childhood Immunization Programs

• Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, assists in protecting poor children from infectious diseases like measles

• Just a few pennies per child can make a huge difference in the future and health of any country who cannot afford vaccinations

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AIDS

•An estimated 25 million people have died from HIV/AIDs so far•2/3 of infected people live in sub-Saharan Africa•Education about prevention is the key to curbing the epidemic

- first goal is to reduce number of new infections-focus is mainly on groups most likely to spread the disease

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Dealing with HIV in the developing world and Eastern Europe would require 17.9 billion condoms a year but only 3.2 billion are being distributed. By adding the costs of condom distribution; promoting use, along with the production of condoms, the total price would equate to less than 3 billion a year, easily meeting the needs of this concerning issue.

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Disease Eradication Success Stories

• The WHO (World Health Organization) led efforts which successfully eliminated smallpox through a worldwide immunization program

• This initiative pattern was used again by a WHO-led coalition to wipe out polio– Polio cases dropped from about 350,000 a year in

1988 to less than 700 in 2003• Campaign led by Jimmy Carter has nearly

eradicated the guinea worm disease

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Reducing Cigarette Smoking• Led by WHO Tobacco Free Initiative • Treaty that calls for limiting smoking in public

areas, increasing taxes on cigarettes, and stronger health warnings on the packages

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Basic Health Care

• A study done by WHO in 2001 found that by providing developing countries with basic health care services in village-level clinics, the world as a whole would gain huge economic benefits– Estimated average of $33 Billion a yr through 2015

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Population Groups

• 2 Groups with projected shrinking populations– Declining fertility (33 countries)– Increasing Mortality (Lesotho and Swaziland)

• Group with fertility near replacement level– 2.5 Billion people (29 countries)

• Group with population growth– A large group of countries

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Fertility Level Projections for 2050

• High- 10.5 bill.• Medium- 9.2 bill.• Low- reach 1.5

children per couple(peak at a little over 8 billion in 2042 and then decline)

Must strive for the low projection if we want to eradicate hunger, poverty, and illiteracy

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Rescuing Failing States

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Failing States: Our Responsibility?

• Rescuing failing states is important because at some point, this trend could translate into a failing civilization

• Example of states in the process of being rescued: Liberia and Colombia

• Liberia: improvements in 2005 with the election of Harvard grad Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

• Colombia: Improvements made as gov’t gained legitimacy and strong coffee prices

• U.S. efforts with weak states are mixed

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Current Ideology

• U.S.: ‘We need a Department of Global Security’ (DGS)• Something that would fashion a coherent policy toward each weak

and failing state• Threats coming less from military power, more from undermining

states (rapid population growth, poverty, deteriorating environmental support systems, etc.)

• The DGS would incorporate AID and all the various assistance programs currently in other departments, thereby assuming responsibility for U.S. development assistance

• Funded by the Department of Defense

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DGS purpose:

• Stabilize population, restore environmental support systems, eradicate poverty, provide universal primary school education

• Drug trafficking, foreign policies, and private investment to failing states

• Peace Corps rejuvenated through DGS

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Poverty Eradication Agenda and Budget

Two ways to achieve this goal:1. Farm Subsidy Reduction:

– The reform of farm subsidies in aid-giving industrial countries is essential.

– U.S. farm subsidies depress prices of exports from developing countries. In other words, U.S. tax payers are subsidizing an increase in world hunger.

2. Debt Relief: an essential component to eradicating poverty– IE: When sub-Saharan Africa was spending 4x as much on debt

servicing as on health care, debt forgiveness was key to increasing living standards

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Conclusion:

• Biggest investments: Education and Health• Education: Universal primary education and

eradication of adult illiteracy• Health Care: Interventions to control diseases,

starting with childhood vaccinations

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Discussion Questions:

• Is Universal Education a realistic goal? Have we even achieved this goal in the United States?

• Adult illiteracy predominately afflicts women, is providing literacy training sufficient? – Why or Why not?

• In the midst of America’s national debt, should we be bailing out other failing states?

• We spent 680 billion dollars in 2010 on our military budget, would this money be better spent on eradicating poverty and stabilizing population?

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Works Cited

• http://www.brac.net/• http://my.opera.com/drlaunch/blog/technology-against-poverty• http://saudigirlslife.com/• http://www.flickr.com/photos/gatesfoundation/sets/72157625906549426/detail/• http://childimmunizationusa.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/thank-goodness-for-this-vaccination/• http://www.aimmission.org/three-key-areas/• http://www.brac.net/• http://www.mapsorama.com/world-map-of-people-living-with-hivaids/• http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=227• http://www.gatesfoundation.org/polio/Pages/2010-year-in-review.aspx#image=0• http://www.fark.com/comments/6020603/Giant-condom-placed-on-statue-as-tribute-to-inventor

-riles-officials-too-bad-they-cant-take-some-good-natured-ribbing• http://blog.asiantown.net/tags.aspx?t=condoms• http://www.tobaccoatlas.org/consumption.html• http://www.economist.com/node/14743589• http://www.fundforpeace.org/global/?q=cr-10-99-fs• http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Percent_poverty_world_map.png