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Many Aid policies are not working because they advance the interests of the rich world at the expense of the poor and MUST be changed.
10 / 8 / 2009
Many of the policies aimed at achieving the MDGs or Millennium Development Goals, which were adopted by the UN in 2000 to ‘solve’ the problem of world poverty, are not working because they advance the interests of the rich world at the expense of the poor and MUST be changed.
A major report published by Leprosy Mission Ireland and launched by Minister Peter Power, Minister of State with responsibility for Overseas Aid calls for radical new thinking on development and aid with several recommendations to address the failure of the MDGs
Bishop Michael Burrows, Chairperson of Church of Ireland Bishops’ Appeal welcomes the report saying Churches must be agents for change, and must speak out when policies are not working, while recognising the difference the churches can make, especially in Africa, where effective local church leadership has long replaced the European missionaries
The full text of the report can be downloaded on the bottom right hand corner of this screen.
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