Taking Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2 Seriously: Outline of a Strategy for Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger
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Antonio La Spina [1]
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[1] Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli
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- Localización: Ragion pratica, ISSN 1720-2396, Nº. 52, 2019, págs. 131-150
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The fulfillment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 2 - ending Extreme Poverty and Hunger - is possible, but extremely difficult. What is necessary is a Global Agency (AGaPHE) whose peripheral units would directly hand a conditional cash transfer of one euro per day over to extremely poor people. This solution has many advantages: it allows for the immediate relief of destitution, avoiding the intermediation of local political and bureaucratic actors; it can also curb the demographic explosion, defuse terrorism, reduce migratory pressures, foster the development of poorer countries, take care of natural environment and resources and contain the neo-nationalist and xenophobic wave in Western political systems. The AGaPHE could also absorb some of the consequences of humanitarian crises, which trigger the flows of asylum-seekers.
