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As we see it
- Cheaper products
- Conveniences
- Easy access to everything
- Does capital flow? or does it hop?
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Uneven Development
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Millenium Development Goals - Dream or Reality?
- 2015 poverty elimination goals
- does the global community mean we are in this together?
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Goals
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Poverty Elimination
- Elim by 50%
- Cut hunger
- cut extreme poverty
- "All must pull their weight"
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Universal Primary Ed
- Girls and Boys
- Having teachers is vitally important
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Promote Gender Equality
- Purely Economic
- they devote money to their kids
- Improve Maternal Health and Improve Child Mortality
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Improve Global Health
- AIDS
- Malaria
- Tubercluosis
- Ensure Sustainability
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Global Partnership for Development
- Half the slum dwellers
- slums of hope
- willingness of residents to improve their own lot
- ones with clean water
- sanitation
- slums of despair
- Contradiction with "Free Trade"
- Subsidized Milk of the Netherlands vs. Milk of Jamacia
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Countries
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Malawi
- corn farmers
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Jamaica
- milk
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Kenya
- AIDS
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Neglected?
- Drugs
- Crime
- Trafficking
- Terrorism
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Why are the MDGs neccesary?
- Because the same things that bring us luxury, put them in poverty
- Same processes
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"Progress" and "Development"
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Biased terminology
- First World
- Third World
- These are totally biased against the reality
that we are all connected by the same
processes.
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"Catching up development"
- Following industrialization will make
developing countries prosperous
- This denies the fact that the first world sits on the third world
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"Externalization of Costs"
- Off shoring
- Outsourcing
- Foreign Production
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America
- 6% of the population & consumes 30% of the world's energy.
- We should fifth our energy use?
- So we should make them use as much as we do?
- So then they use someone else etc. forever
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A question?
- We use 5X our pop in energy
- Are we not overdeveloped?
- Overluxuried.
- Subsistence