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A video that will clear the idea of what is Poverty Around The World

 Some Important Facts to Improve your knowledge about Poverty :

• More than 1.2 billion people—one in every five on Earth—survive on less than $1 a day
• The top 1% of the world’s richest people earn as much as the poorest 57%
• In the 1990s average per capita income growth was less than 3% in 125 developing and transition countries, and was negative in 54
• During the 1990s the share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 30% to 23%.  But as world population increased, the number fell only by 123 million, and if booming China is left out, the number actually increased by 28 million
• Of the around six billion people in the world, at least 1.2 billion do not have access to safe drinking water
• More than 2.4 billion people do not have proper sanitation facilities, and more than 2,2 million people die each year from diseases caused by polluted water and filthy sanitation conditions
• Two-thirds of the world’s 876 million illiterates are women
• About 80% of economically active women in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia work in agriculture
• The annual dairy subsidy in the EU amounts to $913 per cow per year; EU’s aid to Africa is $8 per African per year

Finally Some Solutions To Poverty!

There are poverty in poor countries and rich countries and priorities come in such an advanced way in poorer countries because the country it self can not help their people.

 In poorer countries:

• Improving supplies of clean water, to reduce time spent gathering often foul water and reduce illness caused by foul water supplies.
• Improving the supply of accessible, affordable health care information and services, to reduce the vulnerability to disease of children and the elderly especially.
• Improving the training and equipment of farmers in poor countries related to agriculture and natural resource management, to help increase crop yields and conserve the environment.

In richer countries:

• Improving the quality of education for poor children and education opportunities and incentives.
• Improving opportunities and incentives for poor young females to have children only when they can assure their well-being.

• Improving work opportunities and incentives for the poor so they can provide well for themselves and their families.