Its elimination will enrich our community and release a harvest of energy and skills. If left unattended, the expansion of poverty with hunger, will undermine the fabric and security of the democratic state. His aim was for a new global order to develop international co-operation in the humanitarian field. And his dreams are coming true as the United Nations recently adapted a resolution for the Promotion of a New Global Human Order to deal with the challenges of development and poverty eradication and to arrest the growing disparities among and within countries. While in Guyana, we are conscious of the problems of poverty and the need to reduce further the degree of poverty, we are not alone.
Most nations face the same problems.
In Canada, for example, considered to be a prosperous and wealthy nation, the Mecca of many Guyanese desiring to live abroad, poverty is a grave problem. Those who are poor are getting poorer, the number of poor is growing and the depth of poverty is growing. One in every four people and one in every three children live below the poverty line - more than twice the provincial average. From these quotations about a country most Guyanese consider to be a prosperous one, we can see that poverty hits a section of people everywhere. That is why a global approach, as recommended by Cheddi Jagan is necessary to tackle this serious problem of poverty, which millions of people living miserable and unhappy lives.