“Building A Secure Future: Seeking Practical Solutions”
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Pg 4 My Reality: Defining insecurity
Pg 5 Poverty and Economic Insecurity
Pg 6 A.R.I.S.E for Development
Aid for Development and Security
Reaching for the Millennium Development Goals
Insisting on Transparency and Accountability
Sharing Technological Innovations
Emphasis on Education
Pg 10 Debt vs. Development and Security
The Bretton Woods Institutions
Pg 11 Build the Youth, Secure the Future
Pg 12 A more Secure Africa
Pg 13 Physical Insecurity and the World’s Spirit
My Prayer
List of Sources
ABSTRACT
A.R.I.S.E, Use the Key, BUILD represents the major theme and effectively summarizes the ideas advocated in the three parts of the paper. My thesis is if we deal decisively with factors contributing to insecurity, which is defined broadly to connote a state of apprehension concerning the prospect for a suitable standard of living, we inadvertently begin the processes required to build a secure future.
The first part of the essay examines the many dimensions of economic insecurity, and proposes the A.R.I.S.E theory, an acronym for five steps that encompass: Aid for development and security, where the need for a just trade system that will benefit poor and developed countries is also cited as a sine qua non to the economic development of poor countries, Reaching for the MDG’s, where borrowing from Nigeria’s National Economic Empowerment Strategy (NEEDS), I illustrate how other countries may begin incorporating the MDG’s into their development agenda, Insisting on Transparency Accountability, where developed countries are charged to desist from tacitly promoting corruption, Share Technological Innovations, which advocates measures that can be adopted to close the development gap in the global community using technological innovations and Emphasis on Education, where direct investment in formal as well as...
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