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SPRING 2006
AN END TO EXTREME POVERTY:
CAN AMERICA AND THE UNITED NATIONS MAKE IT HAPPEN?
Definition of Extreme Poverty:
Those making less that $1 per day (around 1 billion people, or one sixth of the world's population)
Course Facilitator:
Time:
Al Reynolds • 296-0673 • hareyn@aol.com
Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering, University of Virginia, and Member, United Nations Association of the USA.
Where:
Home of Al and Helen Reynolds,
2228 Shepherds Ridge Road (in Dunlora, off Rio Road).
Text:
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, by Jeffrey Sachs.
A paperback edition will be available on 28 February 2006, at a price of $16.
Jeffrey Sachs is a development economist and professor and is the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Director of the UN Millennium Project, and Advisor to UN Secretary-General Koffi Annan.
Cost:
The only cost is your purchase of the text.
SYLLABUS
Session 1:
The Nature of Extreme Poverty. The Ladder of Economic Development, and the difficulty for poor countries to get a foot on the first rung. The Poverty Trap. Differences between countries, and the roles of AIDS and easily preventable diseases. (Chapters 1-10)
Session 2:
How To Do It. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The role of financial aid from rich countries in overcoming the poverty trap. Six kinds of capital needed to get a foothold on the development ladder. Examples of success. (Chapters 11-13)
Session 3:
Aid Details. How much aid is needed, where the financial aid will come from, the need for and extent of United States participation, and how aid is to be administered. (Chapters 14-15)
Session 4:
Perspective on the Challenge. "It'll never happen; poor countries have to get their own act together to get themselves onto the development ladder; aid is just money down the drain." How to overcome such widely held views. Examples of successfully met challenges in the past that were thought to be impossible. Why should we do this? The challenge ahead and what has changed to make it possible now, in our generation. (Chapters 16-18)
Let Al Reynolds know by early March if you want to take the course. (Al will be away from Charlottesville February 15-23.)