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| Millenium Development Goals Should be a Perpetuity in Africa and the Rest of the Third World |
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While it is true that the Third World cannot go it alone in their quest to better themselves, the wanton begging bowl culture that many of their leaders have titillated for years should be condemned. In their relentless and escapist bafflegab of blaming the developed world for their socio-economic ills while at the same time perpetually pleading for massive quantities of donor ‘aid’, they have failed to earnestly gauge the fact that they could be the very reasons for the preservation of the status quo in their nations.
The main thing that Africa and the rest of the developing world need in their development prospects is the good will of the developed international community. This also entails the absence of negative interference and economic sabotage.
Yet still, genuine complaints such as those to do with inequitable trade practices barring the entry of developing nations’ products into the developed world as fought against by among others, the Jamaican UN Ambassador Stafford Neil, are warranted. Ambassador Neil, Chairman of the 132 stout Group of 77 (G-77) that forms the bulk of the 191 UN membership, is justified in his calls for a fair deal for the developing world at the world trade amphitheatre.
His croons for the conception of changes in the developed world’s foreign trade policy through abolition of the heinous over ‘protectionism’ could not have come at a better time being hot on the heels of international trade negotiations in Cancun and Doha. It is hoped that such changes will give the poverty-stricken sections of the earth greater and fairer latitude in global trade and economic development.
Thus, the developing world should never let their historic past influence their prospective development agenda. They can only do this by formulating and implementing policies that can drive them to better standards of living and socio-economic growth for which they thirst and drool. They should not engage in the frequently witnessed directionless verbiage of buck passing and excuse digging.
The UN Millennium Development goals should not become their only yardstick to work hard and spur economic growth. Let them play their part in developing their nations rather than waiting for the developed world to subjectively and prescriptively show them the way forward. The developed world should only be there to answer for them the questions of how and not those of why and when.
Therefore, they should strive to overcome such malignant bottlenecks as resource mismanagement, the greasing of corrupt palms through bribery, influence peddling and political patronage, nepotism, cronyism, gender discrimination and violence, ethnicity, among other ills by electing good, transparent and accountable leadership. It would indeed be saddening to find that even after the 2015 target of the Millennium Development Goals, the Third World still wobbles in the murk and mire of social and economic mediocrity that has previously formed the high water mark of their progress agenda.
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