Reflection : Rupanya mereka agak kikir untuk menyumbang fulus. Kalau untuk menyumbang kepada tetangga saja sulit apa lagi kepada negeri nan jauh dimata seperti NKRI yang mengalami berbagai paceklik silih berganti. Tetapi, kalau ada yang mau jongkok-jonkok sambil menada tangan meminta belas kasihan boleh saja.
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=333148&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17 UNDP urges Gulf states to help poor neighbours Publish Date: Monday,21 December, 2009, at 12:20 PM Doha Time Reuters/Cairo Gulf Arab states should devote more money to creating jobs and boosting food security among their poorer Arab neighbours to help the region meet development goals by 2015, a UN report issued yesterday said. Though rich in labour and fertile land, much of the Arab world is plagued by malnutrition, joblessness and a big gap between rich and poor, said the report, published by the UN Development Programme (UNDP). Without more help from Gulf Arab countries, nations such as Yemen, Sudan and Somalia risk missing goals set for the UN Millennium Campaign, which aims to halve extreme poverty and boost life expectancy by 2015, it added. In most Arab countries more than half of unemployed people are young, making the region's jobless rates among young people the highest in the world, the report said. The region needs to create 51mn new jobs by 2020 merely to keep unemployment from rising above its current levels, it added. The two-volume report, entitled 'Development Challenges for the Arab Region', called on Gulf Arab countries to employ more migrant workers from neighbouring states such as Yemen and to invest more in sectors that create jobs throughout the region. Poverty rates have not declined in the Arab world in nearly two decades, it said, adding that nearly 140mn Arabs continue to live under the upper poverty line. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
