U.N. Wants to End Poverty, Hunger by 2030

The United Nations had wanted to reduce global poverty and inequality by 2015. Even though, it had cut extreme poverty in half, they are not so sure about developing country such as sub-Saharan Africa could improve by 2030.  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wants to end extreme poverty by 2030 because the economy has grown better than before. They have set 8 goals that needed to be improve by 2015, but on December Ban decided to change them to 17 new goals to encourage sustainable development, which includes: reducing preventable deaths, ending starvation, and ending gender inequality. In his report, he stated, “With our globalized economy and sophisticated technology, we can decide to end the age-old ills of extreme poverty and hunger, Or we can continue to degrade our planet and allow intolerable inequalities to sow bitterness and despair.” Percentage of people who couldn’t feed themselves decreased from 23.6 during 1990 to 1992 to 14.3 in 2011 to 2013. If in 2015 shows that rate of progress is steady enough, it would be 1 percent improvement of the poverty reduction. In developing nations, about 842 million people suffered from chronic hunger in 2011 and 2013, but the hunger has declined in Africa according to the international food policy research institute, which means that they  could maybe eliminates starvation in 2030. Eliminating preventable deaths were harder than starvation. The U.N. couldn’t stop child death, which could also a sign of economic failure to meet its goal. Immunization against disease such as measles have contributed children to become healthier and also reduce the death of children under age of 5 from 12.6 million in 1990 to 6.6 million by 2012. However, this was not enough to meet the goal in 2015. In 2014, U.N. stated that “Regions such as Oceania, sub-Saharan Africa, Caucasus and Central Asia, and Southern Asia still fall short of the 2015 target, it will take until 2028 to reach [the child mortality reduction] globally at the current rate.”

sources: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/12/31/un-wants-to-end-poverty-hunger-by-2030