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MEDICAL/HEALTH ECONOMIC
SOCIAL Many diseases Unemployment
Droughts floods HIV/AIDS crisis
Not enough money to live
Deforestation Lack of medicines No
access to loans Children leave
school to work Lack of heath care workers
Too little land to grow food ... No time
to study Lack of Poor access to healthcare
High debt Less or no school for
girls Not enough food Low
international aid Girls marry
young Poor food (malnutrition)
Unfair trade rules Many children
born and die Unsafe water Low
health spending Child soldiers /
injuries Poor sanitation Low
education spending Landmines scare people
Women die in childbirth
Ongoing war Not enough
health education
Solutions
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THE CYCLE OF POVERTY
Adapted from Counterpoints Exploring Canadian
Issues, Cranny and Moles, Prentice Hall, 2001
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UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to be
achieved by 2015

• Cut extreme poverty and hunger by 50 per cent
• Allow every child to have an elementary
  education
• Empower women and promote equality between women
  and men
• Reduce by 66 per cent the number of children who
  die before the age of five
• Reduce by 75 per cent the number of women who
  die during childbirth
• Reverse the spread of diseases, especially
  HIV/AIDS and malaria
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Create a global partnership for development with
  targets for aid, trade and debt relief

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Obstacles to Development

• Lack of money for social (public) spending,
  especially on health care and education
• Insufficient international aid
• High debt burden
• Unfair trade conditions (tariffs, subsidies)
• High military spending

• Existing social realities
• Natural disasters
• Environmental degradation an increasingly
  critical factor
• Conflict
• Lack of basic education (especially for
  girls)
• Infectious diseases (especially HIV/Aids,
  water-born diseases, TB)
• Unstable or ineffective government