More than 2.2 billion people are “either near or living in poverty,” according to the United Nations Development Report released July 24.The study also found that about 1.2 billion people survive on the equivalent of $1.25 or less a day, while 12 percent of the world’s population (842 million people) suffer from chronic hunger.
Income inequality in the developing countries has risen by 11 percent between 1990 and 2010.
85 wealthiest people in the world own as much as the 3.5 billion poorest people combined.
45 million people were forcibly displaced due to conflict or persecution by the end of 2012—the highest in 18 years—more than 15 million of them refugees.
Nearly half of all elderly people—46 percent of those aged 60 or older—suffer from one or more physical or intellectual disabilities.
In the developing countries:
7 in 100 children will not survive beyond 5,
50 will not have their birth registered,
68 will not receive early childhood education,
17 will never enroll in primary school,
30 will be stunted
25 will live in poverty.
In the developed world:
Between 2009 and 2011 health spending declined in a third of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries—including Greece, Ireland, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
The United States was 43rd among the top 50 countries in inequality in life expectancy, and second lowest among the top 50, surpassing only Chile again, in inequality in income.
Recent austerity measures have increased poverty in more than half of European countries, and the groups most at risk are children, immigrants and people from a migrant background, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/capitalism-and-global-poverty-two-billion-poor-one-billion-hungry/5393262?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=capitalism-and-global-poverty-two-billion-poor-one-billion-hungry
Income inequality in the developing countries has risen by 11 percent between 1990 and 2010.
85 wealthiest people in the world own as much as the 3.5 billion poorest people combined.
45 million people were forcibly displaced due to conflict or persecution by the end of 2012—the highest in 18 years—more than 15 million of them refugees.
Nearly half of all elderly people—46 percent of those aged 60 or older—suffer from one or more physical or intellectual disabilities.
In the developing countries:
7 in 100 children will not survive beyond 5,
50 will not have their birth registered,
68 will not receive early childhood education,
17 will never enroll in primary school,
30 will be stunted
25 will live in poverty.
In the developed world:
Between 2009 and 2011 health spending declined in a third of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries—including Greece, Ireland, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
The United States was 43rd among the top 50 countries in inequality in life expectancy, and second lowest among the top 50, surpassing only Chile again, in inequality in income.
Recent austerity measures have increased poverty in more than half of European countries, and the groups most at risk are children, immigrants and people from a migrant background, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/capitalism-and-global-poverty-two-billion-poor-one-billion-hungry/5393262?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=capitalism-and-global-poverty-two-billion-poor-one-billion-hungry
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