| About the issues
The gap between the world’s rich and poor has never been wider. But poverty isn’t natural; it’s man-made and sustained by an unfair global trade system, enormous financial debts that can’t be repaid, and insufficient and ineffective aid. For these reasons, trade, aid and debt were the three key demands of the Make Poverty History campaign.
Click the buttons below to find out more about the issues. They include a simplified version of the G8 Summit’s main outcomes, Make Poverty History's analysis of the impact that these outcomes will have on poor countries, and information about the UN's eight Millennium Development Goals.
More and Better Aid
In order to meet the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to lift 500 million people out of poverty by 2015,
there needs to be an increase in aid to poor countries. But they don’t just need more money, they also need the quality of aid to improve. It needs to focus more clearly on the needs of poor people, and should not be conditional on poor countries opening their markets to exports from donor countries.
Aid does work, and it’s desperately needed to prevent millions of deaths due to extreme poverty.
> Download the Aid and Education fact sheet (124 KB pdf)
> Read more about aid on the official Make Poverty History website (external link)
> Read more about aid on the Oxfam GB website
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