conversion survey 2005

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More than two billion human beings throughout the world still live on less than US $2 per day, a situation the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations were designed to redress. Despite progress in a number of areas, the Goals are unlikely to be met without major policy changes. A strong argument is made in this book that new approaches towards states in conflict and governments which do not provide their citizens with basic security and welfare are crucial. In addition, the authors argue that high military spending detracts from the agreed goal of substantially increasing the levels of overseas development aid to facilitate major improvements in the lot of the poorest people. Discouragingly, data in this survey confirm that military expenditures are continuing to rise worldwide - to the detriment of human development.