Paying the Price
Progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals has fallen far short of the promises made in 2000. At the current rate, all but one of them will certainly be missed. The cost of failure will be high: 45 million more children will die between now and 2015 than would be the case if the world met the goal to reduce child mortality. The time for action is running out. 2005 offers an historic opportunity for rich countries to make good on theirpromises to finance the Goals effectively - and those promises are easily affordable.In 2005 the Global Call for Action Against Poverty will tell world leaders that this injustice is not inevitable: they can make poverty history - if they act now.
Published: 2005
Pages: 90
eBook: 9780855988180
Paperback: 9780855985486
| Acronyms and abbreviations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | |||
| The price is small | |||
| Aid works... | |||
| ....and it could work even better | |||
| Ensuring that Southern governments delivery development | |||
| Introduction | |||
| The argument for aid | |||
| Delivering justice, not charity | |||
| Aid works | |||
| Aid is a critical source of finance for the poorest countries | |||
| Aid pessimism needs reassessment | |||
| Small change: the costs of aid | |||
| The human cost of under-funding | |||
| Small change: the current cost of aid | |||
| A history of broken promises | |||
| Affordable for the affluent | |||
| Value for money: how donors can make aid work better | |||
| Strategise - but for poverty reduction | |||
| Cut the red tape | |||
| Support nationally defined poverty programmes | |||
| Delivering development: how Southern governments can make aid work better | |||
| Combat corruption and build effective institutions | |||
| Deliver policies and budgets for poor people, with poor people | |||
| Recommendations | |||
| Notes |
Arabella Fraser
Arabella Fraser is a Research Assistant in agricultural dumping and international aid flows for Oxfam
Bethan Emmett Bethan Emmett is a Policy Adviser in financing for development and gender equality, specifically macroeconomic policy and public expenditure.
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