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Globally, the number of people living in extreme poverty declined from 36 per cent in 1990 to 10 per cent in 2015. In light of these concerns, the General Assembly, at its seventy-second session, decided to proclaim the âThird United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018â2027).âThe objective of the Third Decade is to maintain the momentum generated by the implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017) towards poverty eradication.
While global poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 2000, one in ten people in developing regions still lives on less than US$ 1.90 a day - the internationally agreed poverty line, and millions of others live on slightly more than this daily amount. This would be the first time that poverty has increased globally in thirty years, since 1990. , or 10 per cent of the world population, still live in extreme poverty today, struggling to fulfil the most basic needs like health, education, and access to water and sanitation, to name a few.
during – and in the aftermath – of the pandemic, not only as a health crisis but as a devastating social and economic crisis over the months and years to come. Through resolution 47/196 adopted on 22 December 1992, the General Assembly declared 17 October as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Maintain International Peace and Security, Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD), Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, Statute of the International Court of Justice, UN75 - 75th Anniversary of the United Nations, Violence Against Women and Girls (Spotlight Initiative), Prevention of Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect, Secretary-Generalâs Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. More than 700 million people, or 10 per cent of the world population, still live in extreme poverty today, struggling to fulfil the most basic needs like health, education, and access to water and sanitation, to name a few. I. title. The UN COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund aims to specifically support low- and middle-income countries as well as vulnerable groups who are disproportionately bearing the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic.
PDF | Poverty can be visualized as the receipt of real incomes too small to enable people to live at minimum ... he wrote a book entitled ‘The End of Poverty’ which focuses on how to end poverty. In fact, 8 per cent of employed workers and their families worldwide lived in extreme poverty in 2018. In fact. 4. This would be the first time that poverty has increased globally in thirty years, since 1990. Thatâs down from 16 per cent in 2010 and 36 per cent in 1990. As of 2018, 55 per cent of the worldâs population have no access to at least one social protection cash benefit. High poverty rates are often found in small, fragile and conflict-affected countries. To support the poorest and most vulnerable, the UN has issued a, Framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19.
Within the United Nations system, the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) acts as Focal Point for the United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty and undertakes activities that assist and facilitate governments in more effective implementation of the commitments and policies adopted in the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development and the further initiatives on Social Development adopted at the 24th Special session of the General Assembly. One out of five children live in extreme poverty.
Poverty measurement also helps developing countries gauge program effectiveness and guide their development strategy in a rapidly changing economic environment. The new target is to have no more than 3 per cent of the world’s population living on just $1.90 a day by 2030. In the 2030 Agenda, Goal 1 recognizes that ending poverty in all its forms everywhere is the greatest global challenge facing the world today and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. Poverty entails more than the lack of income and productive resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods. Economic assistance—Developing countries.