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VERSAO VELHA: Como Podemos Acabar com a Fome e Pobreza Mundial  até 2012
Introdução para a Plataforma da End Poverty Campaign

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As pessoas trabalham duro no mundo em desenvolvimento. E eles fazem muito com tecnologia simples. Podemos ajudá-los a criar uma vida melhor para eles mesmos e um mundo mais seguro e sustentável para todos nós- a um custo incrivelmente baixo.  Uma rua movimentada em Delhi, India

Podemos ajudar bilhões de pessoas- e nós também...
A End Poverty Campaign é um programa compreensivo. Ela usa o mercado livre, o microfinanciamento e outras iniciativas sociais. Esses novos métodos de baixo-custo já ajudou centenas de millhões de pessoas a sairem da pobreza.

Um problema urgente
Mais de 850 milhões de pessoas passam fome neste mundo, 1.2 bilhões vivem com menos de um dólar por dia.

Isso ameaça migrações, epidemias, chaos político, guerras e terrorismo. Isso nos ameaça também.

Opinião pública dos EUA atingiu um récorde baixo em muitas partes do mundo. Isso facilita o trabalho dos terroristas, então isso tambéem é um problema de segurança nacional.

Precisamos tomar iniciativa
Isso deveria incluir muitas das muito-valiosas Metar de Desenvolvimento do Millênio que o Jeffrey Sachs delinea no seu exelente livro,The End of Poverty. Mas podemos realizar muito mais.

Os EUA deve ser visto tomando iniciativa para criar um mundo melhor, mais justo, mais seguro e sustentável. Também podemos incitar todos os países ricos a juntar-se a nós. Isso trazará infinitos benefícios para nós e futura gerações.

Podemos fazer isto a um custo baixíssimo.

Nós podemos acabar com a extrema pobreza                                                              Você pode apoiar o aumento de doações para a caridade e legislação compreensiva para acabar  com a pobreza mundial até 2012.  Essa meta pode ser atingida em apenas cinco anos- se os Estados Unidos  e os outors países desenvolvidos gastarem 1.5% do seu GNP.

Isso é só um centavo e meio do dólar. Foi o que os EUA gastaram para o Marshall plan para reconstruir a Europa depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial. O Marshall Plan mudou o curso da história para a Europa Ocidental- também em apenas cinco anos.

Este valor é bem menor do que o valor que gastamos em armas e munições que jamais poderam nos protejer deste mundo injusto.

Existem muitas técnicas e recursos para atingir esta meta essencial. O custo é baixo, e o tempo realista. Nos também vamos nos beneficiar de maior prosperidade e segurança.

Podemos juntar os melhores experts para garantir que nos usamos os métodos mais efetivos. Podemos adaptar os métodos que ajurarão mais cada região.

Uma grande prioridade
Como nos anos 60, que a meta era pôr um homem na lua, a nossa é uma meta visionária e insirante.

E este projeto tem um valor humano maior do que mandar um homem para a lua ou Marte. Com milhões de vidas em risco- talvez a nossa também- isto é bem mais urgente.

Precisamos agir agora para acabar com a pobreza mundial!

Doações espertas e legislação efetiva criará programas bem-monitorados com incentivos fortes para gerenciamento adequado. Ajuda pode ser basiada na cooperação e transparência dos governos que estão recebendo ajuda- ou ir direto à população.

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How We Can End Global Hunger and Poverty
Introduction to the End Poverty CampaignSM Platform

We can help billions of people - and ourselves...
The End Poverty Campaign is an ambitious and achievable plan for ending extreme hunger worldwide in as little as five years.

This comprehensive program makes innovative use of free and fair trade, microfinance, and other social entrepreneurship innovations. These low-cost methods already help millions of people to lift themselves from poverty.

Hearts & Minds is recruiting concerned people like you to:

  • donate to the most effective anti-poverty programs...
  • help educate their fellow citizens...
  • contact the media and our elected representatives to support the best solutions to help as many people as we can...

Photo of four smiling, curious in rural GhanaEven poverty-stricken people have much to offer. Children everywhere can hope and work for a better world for all. Children in rural Ghana

An urgent problem
More than 850 million people go hungry worldwide, 985 million live on less than a dollar a day.

Extreme poverty can lead to mass migrations, epidemics, political chaos, war, and terrorism. These problems endanger people worldwide, including us.

Global opinion of the USA is at an all-time low. This helps terrorists to recruit against us.

Therefore, extreme poverty can also be a serious national security concern.

We must take the lead
The Millennium Development Goals have some very good ideas. But they also have serious shortcomings. And they're officially supported (but not fully funded) by the UN, the USA and many other wealthy nations.

We can do better. Much better.

The USA must take the initiative to create a more just, safe, and sustainable world. This leadership can bring virtually unlimited benefits for us and for all future generations.

We can do this at a remarkably small cost.

Photo of old Delhi: Helping poor people with what you can is also a way of helping ourselves...People work extremely hard in the developing world. They are productive even with simple technology. We can help them create a better life for themselves and a much safer, more sustainable world for all - at surprisingly low cost. Busy street in Delhi, India

We can end extreme poverty
You can support increased charitable giving and comprehensive legislation to help end extreme poverty worldwide in as little as five years. This is achievable if the United States and the other developed nations spend just 1.5% of GDP national income.

That's just a penny and a half on the dollar. It's what the USA spent for the Marshall Plan. That changed the course of history for Western Europe after World War II - also in just five years.

We've done it before and we can do it again.

This proposal costs far less than what we spend on weapons.

There are many proven techniques and plenty of resources to accomplish this essential goal. The price is low and the time frame is realistic. We, too, will benefit in greater prosperity and security.

A major priority
Like the 1960s program for putting a man on the moon, this is a visionary, inspiring goal.

And this project has greater humane value. With millions of lives at stake, it's much more urgent.

We need to act now to end global poverty!

Wise giving and effective legislation will create and fund targeted, well monitored programs with strong incentives for honest and efficient management. Aid should be conditional on cooperation and transparency by the host nations' governments, or it should go directly to the people.

Making it work
The End Poverty Campaign is unique in how it embraces common sense that is often neglected in current, well-intentioned aid programs.

We can give stronger incentives to ensure aid programs are successful.

Handouts rob people of their self respect and dignity. Participants' feedback and their active participation are needed.

Incentives for success increase the effectiveness of aid donors, aid workers, and those who receive the aid. This can include profit and recognition for exemplary performance.

Additional resources can go to the most effective individuals and organizations, as evaluated by the aid recipients themselves and confirmed by impartial third parties.

The most ambitious and achievable platform
Based on extensive research, with advice from numerous experts in the field and our own highly qualified Governing Board, here are specific proposals that can help millions more people lift themselves from poverty. This will create a safer, more fair, sustainable and beautiful world for us as well: End Poverty Campaign Platform.

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