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The Pledge To Eliminate Poverty
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Eradication of the poverty
Among 17 of its millennium goals, poverty eradication is the top priority of the United Nation and is number 1 on its list. While rates of poverty are fairly reduced to half as compared to 2000, one-tenth people that are residents of developing regions still has less than the international line of poverty of US$ 1.9 a day, and few who are little above this poverty line. Much progress has been done on the countries related to the Southeast and West Asian countries but still, population comprising of 42% related to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are as per now are living under poverty line described by UN.
Poverty has manifestation which includes hunger, education limited access, basic services, malnutrition, social status gaps and excluding people from decision making participation. Some of the achievement that has been seen in poverty eradication are as follows.
Poverty has reduced a tremendous amount from the previous 25 years. Nearly 50 % in 1990 the population of developing countries lived below 1.25$ day. In 2015, 14 percent proportion of this of 50% has been reduced
More than 50% of the people who were living in extreme poverty has reduced worldwide. 1.9 billion People were approximated to live under extreme poverty in 1990. In 2015 this number has reduced to 836 million. New Millennium has progressed with its coming era.
Middle-class people of working-class lives on $4 per day or slightly more than this figure. This figure gets tripled from 1991 to 2015. This middle working people in 1991 comprise 18 percent of the population which increases to 50 percent in 2015.
Malnutrition is another factor of poverty as stated above. In 1990 most of the developing countries are undernourished and comprise of 23.3 percent of the population which has decreased to 12.9 percent in 2015.
References
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere - United Nations Sustainable Development. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/poverty/
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