Blog Revival

I honestly never thought that this blog would ever see the light of day again. Anyways, I'll head straight to the point. I envision a future where we have successfully eradicated poverty. In order to do that however, is easier said than done. The United Nations have created the eight millenium development goals and they are essentially goals that are meant to be accomplished by 2015. All of the goals can be found here: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

I've done a little digging on our progress for the first millenium development goal; my main focus for my ideal future. Currently in several third world countries, the proportion of people who are living on less than a dollar a day is alarming. The first sub goal of eradicate poverty is to halve this humongous proportion of people. This graph may explain things a lot clearer.

The goals are meant to be accomplished by 2015, however based on the graph, we still have a long way to go and 5 years from now may not be enough. In Eastern Asia and South Eastern Asia, the goals have been already accomplished. However the conditions in CIS, Asia have grown worse.