Lindsay Beck recently reported called poverty goals “still distant despite Africa boom,” in a recent article. I include an excerpt:
Africa is experiencing unprecedented growth, but the continent will have to sustain that expansion for years to come if it is to lift people out of poverty, the African Development Bank chief said on Thursday.
Africa is set to grow about 6.5 percent this year, marking the fifth straight year of above-trend expansion, due partly to trade with Asia, especially China, AfDB President Donald Kaberuka said.
“Africa will have to sustain this growth for several years — probably a decade and a half of similar numbers — to begin to see an impact on poverty levels,” Kaberuka said at the close of the bank’s two-day annual meeting in Shanghai, China’s glittering financial capital.
“What this means is that, with the exception of a few countries, come 2015, many African countries will not be able to attain the Millennium Development Goals, and that includes access to clean water and sanitation,” he told reporters.
I can all but guarantee that the world will not achieve the MDGs. We can, but we won’t. The UN and other government agencies have no interest in actually solving the problems that they get made to fix. Bureaucracies inherently get caught up and misdirected with corruption and inefficiency.