UN says wealthy failing the poor

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Source: BBC

The world's wealthiest countries are failing to deliver on their promises to give money to the world's poorest nations, a UN report says.

The UN report on progress towards the millennium development goals says this is threatening targets for drastically reducing world poverty by 2015.

The UN report says there has been some improvement but not enough.

World leaders signed up to ambitious goals eight years ago aimed at reducing poverty, hunger and disease by 2015. Now the UN report says wealthy countries are not living up to the commitments they made at the Gleneagles summit in 2005 - and aid needs to be increased by $18bn a year.



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[Crazy Dave]

1. Then when and with what little they do help with...

...has all kinds of restrictions and conditions attached to it.

[Indenturedebtor]

2. Call me a bastard but this is not one of my priorities

Food, medicine, education. Money? Not so much.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Smirk." - Republicon fat cat cronies

[L0oniX]

4. The rich caring for the poor is total rich man propaganda.

Trickle down economics is the rich pissing on the poor.

[AlphaCentauri]

5. The rich will argue that they need a percentage of the poor to maintain their live style

[pampango]

6. It is sad when international agreements are not adhered to. It is usually easy and painless

to sign these agreements, but they are just based on good intentions. There is nothing to force signatories to live up to their word.

Perhaps that's the way it should be - national sovereignty and all - but it is frustrating. The same applies to the Kyoto Treaty. Obviously Bush wouldn't even sign it, but even those that did haven't lived up to their commitments.