Sentences with phrase «global poverty line»

Taking a figure 25 % above this global poverty line, we illustrate the implications of the Greenhouse Development Rights approach based on calculations relative to a development threshold of $ 20 per person per day ($ 7,500 per person per year).

For a development threshold to reasonably capture the principle of a right to development, it should be set at least modestly higher than a global poverty line that reflects a level of welfare that is beyond basic needs, though well short of today's levels of «affluent» consumption.

Critically, GDRs defines both responsibility and capacity in terms of a development threshold — a level of well - being that is modestly above a global poverty line, a threshold below which individuals are not required to bear the costs of addressing the climate problem, and are instead allowed simply to prioritize development.

There are, for example, more people below the global poverty line in India than in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

At the end of the century, the same proportion of the much larger global population remained below the poverty line.

Even most Americans on an income at the poverty line fall inside the top 10 per cent of global incomes.

A government program to provide health insurance for catastrophic illness to households below the poverty line in Karnataka, lowered both mortality rates and out - of - pocket expenses for the residents, according to a recent evaluation published in the leading global health journal The BMJ.

The report lists 30 cities that face increased health risks from heat waves worsened by global warming, based on a combination of four factors: average number of summer days with «oppressive» summer heat, the percentage of households without central air conditioning, ground - level ozone levels, and the percentage of households below the poverty line.

Energy poverty is back on the global agenda and Africa is the front line.

The global impact of climate change can force more than 100 million into living under the poverty line by 2030, a new report by the World Bank revealed.

This represents a critical gap in the literature and an urgent national and global public health problem based on statistics that more than 1 in 5 children are now living below the poverty line in the United States alone.6