Reported by Ahmad Dyandra Rama Putra Bagaskara
[Unpad Media Channel] The Director of the SDGs Center of Excellence Center at Padjadjaran University, Prof. Dr. Zuzy Anna, M.Si., became the keynote speaker for the annual meeting of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) titled “Development Cooperation’s Role in Accelerating Poverty and Inequality Reduction at the Mid-Point of Agenda 2030” which was held online, Tuesday (12/12/2023).
Quoted from the official website of the SDGs Center of Unpad, at that event, Prof. Zuzy presented her research result regarding projections of global poverty rates from various dimensions. The presentation of research results becomes an insight from the discussion on strategies that the OECD shall undertake to anticipate the world’s failure in meeting SDGs targets related to poverty and inequality by 2030.
In her research, Prof Zuzy concluded that the target of global SDGs related to poverty from various dimensions, such as extreme poverty rates, malnutrition, stunting, infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, as well as access to clean water and sanitation, is predicted not to be achieved.
Countries in the Africa Sub-Sahara also tend to dominate the world population with extreme poverty. Furthermore, as stated by Prof Zuzy, the most worrying aspect is the level of malnutrition which is expected to increase by 2030.
Therefore, the Unpad SDGs Center suggests OECD immediately implement a massive reduction in the debt burden for developing countries over the next 7 years towards 2030, the deadline for the SDGs.
It is important to do, considering that the sluggishness of the global economy will actually require the expansion, not reduction, of social spending and various other productive expenditures, especially in countries in the southern hemisphere (global south). Without this, achieving the global elimination of poverty across various dimensions by 2030 will remain a mere hope. (released) (art/SA)*
