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Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hungry
• Reduce the number of people living on less that $1.25 per day by half
• Reduce the number of people who live in hunger by half
• Guarantee stable employment
What do we want to achieve?
What have we already achieved?
• The proportion of people living on less that $1.25 per day has been reduced by 600 million
• Between 1990 and 2008, the poverty rate has dropped from 47% to 24%
• In China, extreme poverty dropped from 60% in 1990 to 16% in 2005 and 12% in 2010
• In Madagascar, extreme poverty dropped from 76.3% in 2001 to 67.8% in 2005 before rising to 81.3% in 2010
• In Nicaragua, extreme hunger dropped from 55.1% in 1991 to 47.7% in 2005 and 21.5% in 2010
• In Comoros, extreme hunger rose from 43.5% in 1991 to 58.1% in 2005 and 67.8 in 2010
What Challenges Remain?
• 1.2 billion people still live on less that $1.25 a day• There are still 850 million people living in hunger
in the world
What has been done?
Wall Against Hunger• Donate money to feature a picture on the wall
Millennium Villages Project
• Addresses the root causes of extreme poverty, taking a holistic, community-led approach to sustainable development
• Slogan ‘In order to make lasting change in any one sphere of development, we must improve them all.’
• An education and advocacy organisation working to increase the number and effectiveness of people taking action to see an end to extreme poverty