Sentences with phrase «halve global poverty»

In the short - term, Diouf said that the current situation is detrimental to the U.N.'s 2015 Millennium Development Goals to halve global poverty.

The world will never meet the UN Millennium development goals, to halve global poverty, unless we see more progress in India.

Other goals include halving the global poverty rate; combatting HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases; and achieving universal primary education.

Not exact matches

The Gateses point out that in a recent survey, only 1 % of respondents knew that global poverty has been cut in half since 1990.

Over the last quarter century, APEC has shaped and transformed the global economy and supported half a billion people in their rise out of poverty.

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.

The goals were crafted to engage all member countries — which are expected to integrate the SDGs into their policies for the next decade and a half — in addressing the root causes of global poverty, gender inequality and climate change.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

If the next global development agenda seeks to alleviate poverty in all its manifestations, then that can not be possible if conflict transformation is not incorporated as half of the world's extreme poor live in conflict - affected countries.

Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.

A new UNESCO policy paper shows that the global poverty rate could be more than halved if all adults completed secondary school.

Tourism has been identified by more than half of the world's poorest countries as an effective means to take part in the global economy and reduce poverty.

We've got a spoken rule around the TreeHugger virtual office that we don't write «save the planet» as it's simplistic cliché, but breaking that rule somehow seems appropriate at this moment: According to a new report from the UNEP investing just 2 % of global GDP could both alleviate global poverty, set us solidly on the path away from fossil fuels, and cut our collective ecological footprint nearly in half.

The World Bank came out with new numbers on global poverty last week --- and they were full of good news: The proportion of people living on a less than $ 1.25 a day has halved since 1990.

The belief that the world can drastically cut global carbon - dioxide emissions at a time when about half of the people on the planet are still living in relative energy poverty borders on fantasy.

In addition, the investments would alleviate global poverty and keep stagnating economies humming, while cutting humanity's global ecological footprint nearly in half by 2050 even in the face of rising populations.

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Nearly half of America's babies live in or near poverty — this is a clear warning sign for America's global competitiveness.