FACTS About Poverty!!

About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes...........(more)
Over 80% of the world population lives on less than $10.00 (USD) a day (World Bank)...(more)

Nearly half the world’s 6 billion people lives on less than $2 a day. However, poverty is a reality affecting both rich and poor countries. In developed countries it is estimated that 1 in 10 children live below the poverty line.The situation in developing countries is much worse. In the year 2000 alone, 1.7 million children were needlessly lost because countries around the world failed to reduce poverty levels.

The Poorest Countries in the World (GDP per capita)

	Zimbabwe $200		Congo, Democratic  Republic $300		Burundi $400
	Liberia $500		Guinea-Bissau $600		Somalia $600
	Central African Republic $700		Eritrea $700		Niger $700
	Sierra Leone $700

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Richest Countries in Africa
Richest Countries in the World
Most Generous Countries

ABC News Launched a yearlong project to focus on the diseases and health conditions that disproportionately afflict the world's poorest people. The series, "Be the Change: Save a Life," kicked off in December 2010 and continue throughout 2011. Led by "World News" anchor Diane Sawyer and ABC News Chief Health and Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser, the series will include reporting from all ABC News anchors across all broadcasts and platforms...........(more)

How society can break the cycle of poverty?

According to Galbraith, the cycle of poverty can be broken if society will provide the smallest amount of income essential for respectability and well-being for the poor, first rate school for the children, and adequate housing for the poverty stricken families......(more)

Impact of Microfinance on Poverty

The term “Microfinance” pertains to the lending of extremely small amounts of capital to poor entrepreneurs in order to create a mechanism to alleviate poverty by providing the poor and destitute with resources that are available to the wealthy, albeit at a smaller scale. Yunus won the Nobel Peace prize in 2006 for his efforts in combating poverty and providing resources to the poor via the Grameen Bank and the microfinance model..... (more)