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The Global New Deal
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In March 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a “global new deal whose impact can stretch from the villages of Africa to reforming the financial institutions of London and New York—and giving security to hard-working families in every country.” The prime minister proclaimed the need to “work for a more stable world where we defeat not only global terrorism but global poverty, hunger and disease.”1 It was indeed refreshing to see the leader of Great Britain endorse the need for a “global new deal” to overcome preventable suffering. In many respects, Gordon Brown’s speech continues a history of similar endorse- ments.
Since its founding, the member states of the United Nations have again and again, often with great flourish, declared their commitment to the elimination of global poverty. In its Millennium Declaration of September 2000, for example, the states of the UN declared that they would “spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a bil- lion of them are currently subjected.”2 To realize this, these states adopted eight ambitious “Millennium Development Goals” (MDGs) pledging by 2015 to cut income poverty and hunger in half, achieve universal primary education, eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary schools, reduce child mortality by two-thirds, reduce maternal mortality by three- quarters, halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and malaria, halve the proportion of people without consistent access to safe drinking water, integrate principles of sustainable development, and open up a new global partnership for development which would include debt relief and increased aid. On 25 September 2008, world leaders again came together in New York to renew their commitments to achieve these MDGs by 2015.3
William F. Felice - Personal Name
2nd Edition
978-0-7425-6728-3
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The Global New Deal
Management
English
2010
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