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Donor Neglect Deadly - Oxfam
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Donor Neglect Deadly - Oxfam
by Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 5 (IPS) - The world's poorer nations are paying a heavy price in human lives for the failure of the rich to provide the resources they promised to fight global hunger and poverty, humanitarian agency Oxfam said in a report released Sunday.
If the world fails to act, warned the international body, ''45 million more children will die needlessly by 2015''-- the targeted date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by 189 world leaders at a summit meeting in New York in September 2000.
Additionally, said Oxfam, 247 million more people in sub-Saharan Africa will be living on the razor edge of poverty, surviving on less than a dollar a day in 2015, 97 million more children will still be out of school and 53 million more people in the world will lack proper sanitation facilities by that date.
''The sums that rich countries invest in global poverty reduction are shamefully small,'' the London-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) said in its study, 'Paying the Price'.
At an average of 80 dollars per person per year in rich countries, the investment is equivalent to the price of a weekly cup of coffee.
''What is more, the wealthier these countries become, the less they have given in aid. Rich countries today give half as much, as a proportion of their incomes, as they did in the 1960s,'' the study noted.
Find this article: IPS - http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26546
Donor Neglect Deadly - Oxfam
by Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 5 (IPS) - The world's poorer nations are paying a heavy price in human lives for the failure of the rich to provide the resources they promised to fight global hunger and poverty, humanitarian agency Oxfam said in a report released Sunday.
If the world fails to act, warned the international body, ''45 million more children will die needlessly by 2015''-- the targeted date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by 189 world leaders at a summit meeting in New York in September 2000.
Additionally, said Oxfam, 247 million more people in sub-Saharan Africa will be living on the razor edge of poverty, surviving on less than a dollar a day in 2015, 97 million more children will still be out of school and 53 million more people in the world will lack proper sanitation facilities by that date.
''The sums that rich countries invest in global poverty reduction are shamefully small,'' the London-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) said in its study, 'Paying the Price'.
At an average of 80 dollars per person per year in rich countries, the investment is equivalent to the price of a weekly cup of coffee.
''What is more, the wealthier these countries become, the less they have given in aid. Rich countries today give half as much, as a proportion of their incomes, as they did in the 1960s,'' the study noted.
Find this article: IPS - http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26546
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