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janeiro 23, 2006
Bono presente em Davos
Bono confirmou a sua presença no Forum Economico de Davos, onde debaterá a necessidade da irradicação de pobreza extrema:
«Davos last year was dominated by Africa. Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Bill Clinton were all in town to bang the drum for new policies that would put development in the world's poorest continent at the top of the policy agenda.
The U2 frontman Bono received the sort of rapturous reception he would normally only get at the end of a gig at Madison Square Gardens.
This year, Bono and Brown are back in town - talking about what is left to be done. There's plenty, according to the New Economics Foundation, which says the poor's share of global growth in the 1990s was even lower than in the lost decade of the 1980s, when Africa was beset by soaring energy prices and global recession as well as poor economic management. A New Economics Foundation report says that between 1990 and 2001, for every $100 of growth in the world's income per person, 60 cents was contributed to reducing poverty for those living on less than a dollar a day.
In the 1980s $2.20 in every $100 of growth went to the very poorest. The upshot, says the thinktank, is that it currently takes $166 of extra global production to produce a single extra dollar of poverty reduction - and at enormous cost to the environment.»
Publicado por U2Only às janeiro 23, 2006 09:14 AM