ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

 Goal: Improve the quality of life for people. This can help eliminate or reduce economic inequality, which can be a key driver of conflict.

LIMITATION: Requires governments to change their spending priorities. In 2022, an estimated 34.1 billion dollars (U.S) was spent worldwide on peace building and peacekeeping. However, that was only 0.4 of military spending that same year.

       "We spend much more money and resources managing conflicts than on preventing them and building peace." - Antonio Guterres, secretary general of the United States. 

Note: And that in itself is such a waste and poor excuse to use it for the weapons they buy and we all know there will never any peace until Jesus comes to do what he needs to do.

What the Bible says: The world's governments and institutions can help the poor, but they will never be able to eliminate poverty completely. - DEUTERONY 15:13; MATTHEW 26:11. 

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