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"Ten Cents
Big Systems - Global Institutions, Governance and History

The Millennium Development Goals
are the closest thing we have to an international consensus on how to meet the
basic needs of everyone on the planet.

It's an imposing to-do list: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, provide
universal education, ensure sustainability, etc. But it all hinges on one thing
- keeping people healthy. At least, that's what Jeffrey
Sachs says (PDF):

"One cannot think about poverty reduction without thinking about improvements
in health. ... People who are sick and dying do not get out of poverty. Children
orphaned by AIDS or other killers do not have much prospect of getting out of
poverty in the world that we are living in. ...You need a strategy; the strategy
must be for universal access to essential health services. People need to stay
alive for societies to have a chance to achieve development."

But - and here's the kicker - providing universal essential health care is
entirely within our means:

"[W]e found that $25 billion was needed to deliver basic life-saving health
services for the low income countries. If you do the arithmetic, it is $25 billion
out of $25 trillion. That’s one-thousandth of the rich world’s GNP!
Just 10 cents out of every $100 of rich countries’ GNP."

That's right, for ten cents off every Benjamin
Franklin we spend in the wealthy world, we could be starting to turn this
thing around. And Sachs is talking about what's possible right now, given current
technologies and political restraints, not what is becoming possible with changing
priorities, non-profit pharmaceutical
companies and
collaborative efforts. Sometimes what's most galling isn't what we can't
do, but what we could.

"Ten Cents
Big Systems - Global Institutions, Governance and History

The Millennium Development Goals are the closest thing we have to an international consensus on how to meet the basic needs of everyone on the planet.

It's an imposing to-do list: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, provide universal education, ensure sustainability, etc. But it all hinges on one thing - keeping people healthy. At least, that's what Jeffrey
Sachs says (PDF): "One cannot think about poverty reduction without thinking about improvements
in health. ... People who are sick and dying do not get out of poverty. Children orphaned by AIDS or other killers do not have much prospect of getting out of poverty in the world that we are living in. ...You need a strategy; the strategy must be for universal access to essential health services. People need to stay alive for societies to have a chance to achieve development."

But - and here's the kicker - providing universal essential health care is entirely within our means:

"[W]e found that $25 billion was needed to deliver basic life-saving health services for the low income countries. If you do the arithmetic, it is $25 billion out of $25 trillion. That’s one-thousandth of the rich world’s GNP! Just 10 cents out of every $100 of rich countries’ GNP."

That's right, for ten cents off every Benjamin Franklin we spend in the wealthy world, we could be starting to turn this thing around. And Sachs is talking about what's possible right now, given current technologies and political restraints, not what is becoming possible with changing priorities, non-profit pharmaceutical companies and collaborative efforts. Sometimes what's most galling isn't what we can't do, but what we could."