Sentences with phrase «people out of extreme poverty»

That is one reason why (as the briefing explains) it will be harder to take a billion more people out of extreme poverty in the next 20 years than it was to take almost a billion out in the past 20.

Factories and call centers in places like India and China, often providing services for U.S. - based corporations, have helped fuel rapid growth and pull more than one billion people out of extreme poverty.

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In developing countries, we focus on improving people's health and wellbeing, helping individuals lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty.

In developing countries, the foundation focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty.

Each year, nearly 100 million people worldwide are pushed into extreme poverty because they must pay for health expenses out of their own pockets.

Nearly seven out of ten people were living below the extreme poverty line, on less than $ 1 a day, and livelihood opportunities were severely limited.»

According to the UN High - Level Panel report «every day, poverty condemns 1 out of 7 people on the planet to a struggle to survive;» The UN High - Level Panel reports notes that «continuing on current growth trends, about 5 % of people will be in extreme poverty by 2030, compared with 43.1 % in 1990 and a forecast 16.1 % in 2015» (2013:44).

The Millennium Declaration, sets out an historic commitment to eradicate extreme poverty and improve the health of the world's poorest people by 2015.

In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty.

«One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation - state of Syria and the rise of ISIS was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis that created the symptoms — or rather the conditions of extreme poverty — that has now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,» the former Maryland governor said, fielding a question about foreign policy from Bloomberg.

«Nearly 1 billion people have been taken out of extreme poverty in 20 years.

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