🎓Asignatura: Historia de los países de habla inglesa / History of english-speaking countries. ✏ Título: SDG Jamaica By: Marina García-Morato Olivares

1. UNITED NATIONS PROJECT
SUSTANAIBLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
JAMAICA
The SDG is an universal call, also known as Global Goals, to take action to end up
poverty, hunger, to make gender equality, peace ad justice in order to make a
better world.
I’ve chosen Jamaica because is one of my favourite countries and I think it would
give so much to talk about as it is not a developed country but neither a third-
world country.
The economy of Jamaica is heavily reliant on services, accounting for 70% of the
country's GDP. Jamaica has natural resources, primarily bauxite, which is an
amorphous clayey rock that is the chief commercial ore of aluminium, and an
ideal climate conducive to agriculture and also tourism.

2. The point I will talk about is poverty because I consider it is the most present
problem in today’s world. We must give it much more attention as we are talking
about lives.
As we all know, Jamaica is very vulnerable to natural disasters, such as
hurricaines, floods and climate change. It is an upper middle-income economy
that is nevertheless struggling due to low growth, high public debt, and exposure
to external shocks.
Since 2015, poverty in Jamaica has had a decline since the global financial and
economic crises which had a very negative effect.
About 593,600 persons among Jamaica's 2.8 million population have been
classified as being at the poverty line based on household consumption
expenditure.
According to the survey tabled in Parliament at the end of September, Jamaica's
adult equivalent poverty line increased by 3.7 per cent to $175,297. That increase
represents the increased cost of maintaining a minimum standard of living and is
the smallest increase since the beginning of nationally measured poverty rates in
Jamaica.

3. The first goals are that by 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people
everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day, to
reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages
living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions,
implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures
for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor
and the vulnerable.
Another mesure, would be to ensure significant mobilization of resources
from a variety of sources, in order to provide adequate and predictable
means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to
implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
Apart from that, to ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor
and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as
access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of
property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and
financial services, including microfinance and to build the resilience of the
poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and
vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social
and environmental shocks and disasters.

4. I hope everything will continue going up in order to live in a better world
because it is not fair that some of us can have the opportunity to have the
fundamental rights as having a plate to eat, or a house while millions of
people are dying everyday because they don’t have them.