RP not reaching their Millenium goals.
The Philippines is making slow progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals or MDG, which are development targets that 189 countries have pledged to achieve by 2015.
In a joint report Monday by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations, the Philippines is lagging in poverty reduction, reducing the number of underweight children, providing sufficient potable water and improving sanitation.
In fact, the Philippines is either slow or showing no progress in nine of the 21 categories, according to the report entitled “The Millennium Development Goals: Progress in Asia and the Pacific 2007.” There eight development pledges, and each has several categories.
Also some 14.8 percent of Filipinos live on less than $1 a day, according to a previous story of The Manila Times. But some say the poverty threshold be living on $2 a day.
“For both Vietnam and the Philippines the current ratios of under-5 [years old] mortality between poorest to riches quintile also represent deterioration. Despite their success in achieving or moving toward he under-5 survival goals, the gaps between poor and rich have been widening,” according to the study.
The Philippines, the study said, is either showing no progress or even regressing in the MDG criteria for the number children enrolled in primary education, number of those able to reach fifth grade, the extent of forest cover, levels of carbon dioxide emissions, and water accessibility in urban areas.
From: Manila Times
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RP not reaching their Millenium goals.
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While Asia has made great strides over the last decade in raising macroeconomic growth, there are increasing concerns about its inclusiveness. There were several interesting articles in e-newsline (http://www.adbi.org/e-newsline/) about growing incoming disparity in countries such as India, China and Vietnam. I suppose the real question is how much of the wealth will trickle down to those in need through job creation and better social infrastructure.
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