FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT POVERTY

• 767 million people live below the international poverty line of $1.90 a day

• Just under 10 per cent of the world’s workers live with their families on less than $1.90 per person per day

• The overwhelming majority of people living below the poverty line belong to two regions: Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

• High poverty rates are often found in small, fragile and conflict-affected countries

• One in four children under age five in the world has inadequate height for his or her age

• Every day in 2014, 42,000 people had to abandon their homes to seek protection due to conflict

GOAL 1 TARGETS:

• By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day

• By 2030, 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

• By 2030, 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

• By 2030, 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

• Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, 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

• Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions

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TASKS FOR STUDENTS:

1. Discussion:

 What does poverty mean to you and what could you do to end it?