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Many of us who have worked at the grassroots in the South will have lived in closed proximity to extremely poor people and can understand what it means. Small arms, all of them manufactured in the richer parts of the world, are fuelling war and poverty in the poorer parts; should rich nations not do something about cutting off supply at the point of origin?

But you cannot do without some formal schooling. They could have strengthened the agricultural extensions service of the Ministry of Agriculture. The woman is the key agent of change. Email Address: Follow Join 5 other subscribers. Mr Cameron will be the Chair of the G8 when it meets in London next year. But that requires some education and some knowledge.

You might try to improve agriculture for a community, but if they are going to be washed away in the next flood, what good have you achieved? Nothing will change in the foreseeable future. Surely both have to be dealt with and this what I propose to tackle in my series of blogs; that governments should be induced to govern better, but that organisations that are not formed of or by governments should adopt a different agenda.

The latter come from the North as well as China. Then we would reduce development to its human dimensions, not to abstract theories. Most of the large NGOs have become sub-contractors to their own governments' aid projects - dealing with efficient delivery at the expense of lasting transformation. It is as simple and complicated as that; 2.

They are undernourished. The man might move in search of work, and often will stay away, forming new relationships and assuming new responsibilities, but the woman stays behind. Formal education is not enough; there can be and indeed there should be perhaps street theatre, radio education, animation and cartoons. We know that there are roughly one and a quarter billion people who are more or less constantly on the edge of starvation; they really will never be able to have a decent meal in their lives.

According to the International Food Policy Research Institute, just over half of the children of Ethiopia grow stunted. The large NGOs - those that could make a difference - are so determined to build their own structures, that they are less concerned to achieve lasting change at the very grassroots. For example, we know that the main reason for the global warming is the amount of fossil fuels emitted by the richer nations and the richer people in the world, but what are we doing about it?

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About Benny. Home About. It is estimated that around 10 million people a year are currently dying of starvation about 30, per day ; 1. This is where one comes to the sad conclusion that the whole discussion is a bit like the debate that the great theologians of the 15 th century were holding in Constantinople on how many angels could dance on the head of a pin the debate it is a myth!

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It seems to me that the whole debate that revolves round the Goals — just as it was around the first set of Goals back before — consists of thing that the poor world, the global South, should be working towards solving, without very much being demanded of the rich world. Posted on November 7, by bennydembitzer. In the case of world poverty and world development, I would argue that we need to try to get out of the box in which we have been locked in and look at what we mean by development, growth, poverty reduction not through the prism of international organisations and academic research, but their meanings to the individual, the poorest member of society, someone who is, by definition, marginalised, unrepresented, outside the structures of the corporate world through which most decisions are taken.