World poverty is shrinking rapidly, new index reveals
UN development report uses nutrition and education as yardsticks as well as income
Tracy McVeigh
The Observer, Saturday 16 March 2013
Unemployed Juan Bayes, 60, sleeps as he begs in the Andalusian capital of Seville.
Unemployed Juan Bayes, 60, sleeps as he begs in the Andalusian capital of Seville. Photograph: Marcelo Del Pozo/Reuters
Some of the poorest people in the world are becoming significantly less poor, according to a groundbreaking academic study which has taken a new approach to measuring deprivation. The report, by Oxford University's poverty and human development initiative, predicts that countries among the most impoverished in the world could see acute poverty eradicated within 20 years if they continue at present rates.
It identifies "star performer" nations such as Rwanda, Nepal and Bangladesh as places where deprivation could disappear within the lifetime of present generations. Close on their heels with reductions in poverty levels were Ghana, Tanzania, Cambodia and Bolivia.
The study comes after the UN's latest development report published last week which stated that poverty reduction drives in the developing world were exceeding all expectations. It says: "The world is witnessing a epochal 'global rebalancing' with higher growth in at least 40 poor countries helping lift hundreds of millions out of poverty and into a new 'global middle class'. Never in history have the living conditions and prospects of so many people changed so dramatically and so fast."
The brighter global picture is the result of international and national aid and development projects investing in schools, health clinics, housing, infrastructure and improved access to water. The UN also pointed to trade as being a key factor which was improving conditions in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. These improvements have not been picked up in the past when poverty has been measured strictly in income terms without taking into account other factors – health, education and living standards.
The study of the world's poorest one billion people uses a new measure, the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which was just updated in the 2013 UN report. It includes ten indicators to calculate poverty – nutrition, child mortality, years of schooling and attendance, cooking fuel, water, sanitation, electricity assets and a covered floor.
The initiative hopes insights from the MPI will incentivise international donors and governments to help the poorest by allowing the results to be measured. The academics believe old methods of looking at income levels – such as those living on $1.25 a day or less – ignores other deprivations in, for example, nutrition, health and sanitation.
The system was developed in 2010 by the institute's director, Dr Sabina Alkire, and Dr Maria Emma Santos. Dr Alkire said: "As poor people worldwide have said, poverty is more than money – it is ill health, it is food insecurity, it is not having work, or experiencing violence and humiliation, or not having health care, electricity, or good housing.
"Citizen activism is under-appreciated for its role. Maybe we have been overlooking the power of the people themselves, women who are empowering each other, civil society pulling itself up."
The study found that in 2013 a total of 1.6 billion people are living in "multidimensional" poverty. The poorest one billion live in 100 countries. Most of the bottom billion live in South Asia, with India home to 40%, followed by sub-Saharan Africa with 33%. The report also found that 9.5% of the bottom billion poor people lived in developed, upper middle-income countries.
Its the end of the third world as we know it
Its the end of the third world as we know it
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Doc wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/ ... te-povertyWorld poverty is shrinking rapidly, new index reveals
UN development report uses nutrition and education as yardsticks as well as income
Tracy McVeigh
The Observer, Saturday 16 March 2013
Unemployed Juan Bayes, 60, sleeps as he begs in the Andalusian capital of Seville.
Unemployed Juan Bayes, 60, sleeps as he begs in the Andalusian capital of Seville. Photograph: Marcelo Del Pozo/Reuters
Some of the poorest people in the world are becoming significantly less poor, according to a groundbreaking academic study which has taken a new approach to measuring deprivation. The report, by Oxford University's poverty and human development initiative, predicts that countries among the most impoverished in the world could see acute poverty eradicated within 20 years if they continue at present rates.
It identifies "star performer" nations such as Rwanda, Nepal and Bangladesh as places where deprivation could disappear within the lifetime of present generations. Close on their heels with reductions in poverty levels were Ghana, Tanzania, Cambodia and Bolivia.
The study comes after the UN's latest development report published last week which stated that poverty reduction drives in the developing world were exceeding all expectations. It says: "The world is witnessing a epochal 'global rebalancing' with higher growth in at least 40 poor countries helping lift hundreds of millions out of poverty and into a new 'global middle class'. Never in history have the living conditions and prospects of so many people changed so dramatically and so fast."
The brighter global picture is the result of international and national aid and development projects investing in schools, health clinics, housing, infrastructure and improved access to water. The UN also pointed to trade as being a key factor which was improving conditions in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. These improvements have not been picked up in the past when poverty has been measured strictly in income terms without taking into account other factors – health, education and living standards.
The study of the world's poorest one billion people uses a new measure, the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which was just updated in the 2013 UN report. It includes ten indicators to calculate poverty – nutrition, child mortality, years of schooling and attendance, cooking fuel, water, sanitation, electricity assets and a covered floor.
The initiative hopes insights from the MPI will incentivise international donors and governments to help the poorest by allowing the results to be measured. The academics believe old methods of looking at income levels – such as those living on $1.25 a day or less – ignores other deprivations in, for example, nutrition, health and sanitation.
The system was developed in 2010 by the institute's director, Dr Sabina Alkire, and Dr Maria Emma Santos. Dr Alkire said: "As poor people worldwide have said, poverty is more than money – it is ill health, it is food insecurity, it is not having work, or experiencing violence and humiliation, or not having health care, electricity, or good housing.
"Citizen activism is under-appreciated for its role. Maybe we have been overlooking the power of the people themselves, women who are empowering each other, civil society pulling itself up."
The study found that in 2013 a total of 1.6 billion people are living in "multidimensional" poverty. The poorest one billion live in 100 countries. Most of the bottom billion live in South Asia, with India home to 40%, followed by sub-Saharan Africa with 33%. The report also found that 9.5% of the bottom billion poor people lived in developed, upper middle-income countries.
Poor Nations, most, were exploited by bullies that became rich exploiting the weak Nations
Africa the richest "natural resources" continent on planet .. but the poorest continent and Nations
The bullies, French, Brits, Belgium, Americans were (and still are) stealing the natural resources of any kind of African (and Middle Eastern and Central Asian and Far Eastern) continent
That is changing, and the changing accelerating, thanks to many factors .. Lion not lion used to be
In that sense, Doc, yes, Its the end of the third world as we know it
That's what Iran is all about .. West not yet ready to swallow those good old days behind us (needing convincing )
well ,
.
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Poor Exploiting the Rich......
Heracleum Persicum wrote:Doc wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/ ... te-povertyWorld poverty is shrinking rapidly, new index reveals
UN development report uses nutrition and education as yardsticks as well as income
Tracy McVeigh
The Observer, Saturday 16 March 2013
Unemployed Juan Bayes, 60, sleeps as he begs in the Andalusian capital of Seville.
Unemployed Juan Bayes, 60, sleeps as he begs in the Andalusian capital of Seville. Photograph: Marcelo Del Pozo/Reuters
Some of the poorest people in the world are becoming significantly less poor, according to a groundbreaking academic study which has taken a new approach to measuring deprivation. The report, by Oxford University's poverty and human development initiative, predicts that countries among the most impoverished in the world could see acute poverty eradicated within 20 years if they continue at present rates.
It identifies "star performer" nations such as Rwanda, Nepal and Bangladesh as places where deprivation could disappear within the lifetime of present generations. Close on their heels with reductions in poverty levels were Ghana, Tanzania, Cambodia and Bolivia.
The study comes after the UN's latest development report published last week which stated that poverty reduction drives in the developing world were exceeding all expectations. It says: "The world is witnessing a epochal 'global rebalancing' with higher growth in at least 40 poor countries helping lift hundreds of millions out of poverty and into a new 'global middle class'. Never in history have the living conditions and prospects of so many people changed so dramatically and so fast."
The brighter global picture is the result of international and national aid and development projects investing in schools, health clinics, housing, infrastructure and improved access to water. The UN also pointed to trade as being a key factor which was improving conditions in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. These improvements have not been picked up in the past when poverty has been measured strictly in income terms without taking into account other factors – health, education and living standards.
The study of the world's poorest one billion people uses a new measure, the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which was just updated in the 2013 UN report. It includes ten indicators to calculate poverty – nutrition, child mortality, years of schooling and attendance, cooking fuel, water, sanitation, electricity assets and a covered floor.
The initiative hopes insights from the MPI will incentivise international donors and governments to help the poorest by allowing the results to be measured. The academics believe old methods of looking at income levels – such as those living on $1.25 a day or less – ignores other deprivations in, for example, nutrition, health and sanitation.
The system was developed in 2010 by the institute's director, Dr Sabina Alkire, and Dr Maria Emma Santos. Dr Alkire said: "As poor people worldwide have said, poverty is more than money – it is ill health, it is food insecurity, it is not having work, or experiencing violence and humiliation, or not having health care, electricity, or good housing.
"Citizen activism is under-appreciated for its role. Maybe we have been overlooking the power of the people themselves, women who are empowering each other, civil society pulling itself up."
The study found that in 2013 a total of 1.6 billion people are living in "multidimensional" poverty. The poorest one billion live in 100 countries. Most of the bottom billion live in South Asia, with India home to 40%, followed by sub-Saharan Africa with 33%. The report also found that 9.5% of the bottom billion poor people lived in developed, upper middle-income countries.
Poor Nations, most, were exploited by bullies that became rich exploiting the weak Nations
Africa the richest "natural resources" continent on planet .. but the poorest continent and Nations
The bullies, French, Brits, Belgium, Americans were (and still are) stealing the natural resources of any kind of African (and Middle Eastern and Central Asian and Far Eastern) continent
That is changing, and the changing accelerating, thanks to many factors .. Lion not lion used to be
In that sense, Doc, yes, Its the end of the third world as we know it
That's what Iran is all about .. West not yet ready to swallow those good old days behind us (needing convincing )
well ,
.
Thank You for your post, Azari.
Sometimes Poor but Tough Nations bully and exploit the Rich....Poor Nations, most, were exploited by bullies that became rich exploiting the weak Nations
For example, a Gang of Randy Religious Fanatics who Boiled Out of the Hot Hell of Arabia to Ruin both the Pomegranates and the Roman Byzantines ..........
Forgot to mention the Turks, the Arabs and ESPECIALLY the Mongols and Germans.........The bullies, French, Brits, Belgium, Americans
Also the Russian Bears..........
The Muslim Turks and Arabs were into slaving and the Mongols & Germans into worse...........
Even the Bad News Russian Bears were usually more Bearable than the Mongols.....
And the Germans....
For the love of G_d, consider you & I may be mistaken.
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Re: Its the end of the third world as we know it
This is good, but also a fragile gain. Its also more dangerous for the status quo than masses of the desperately poor.
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Re: Poor Exploiting the Rich......
monster_gardener wrote:Heracleum Persicum wrote:Doc wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/ ... te-povertyWorld poverty is shrinking rapidly, new index reveals
UN development report uses nutrition and education as yardsticks as well as income
Tracy McVeigh
The Observer, Saturday 16 March 2013
Unemployed Juan Bayes, 60, sleeps as he begs in the Andalusian capital of Seville.
Unemployed Juan Bayes, 60, sleeps as he begs in the Andalusian capital of Seville. Photograph: Marcelo Del Pozo/Reuters
Some of the poorest people in the world are becoming significantly less poor, according to a groundbreaking academic study which has taken a new approach to measuring deprivation. The report, by Oxford University's poverty and human development initiative, predicts that countries among the most impoverished in the world could see acute poverty eradicated within 20 years if they continue at present rates.
It identifies "star performer" nations such as Rwanda, Nepal and Bangladesh as places where deprivation could disappear within the lifetime of present generations. Close on their heels with reductions in poverty levels were Ghana, Tanzania, Cambodia and Bolivia.
The study comes after the UN's latest development report published last week which stated that poverty reduction drives in the developing world were exceeding all expectations. It says: "The world is witnessing a epochal 'global rebalancing' with higher growth in at least 40 poor countries helping lift hundreds of millions out of poverty and into a new 'global middle class'. Never in history have the living conditions and prospects of so many people changed so dramatically and so fast."
The brighter global picture is the result of international and national aid and development projects investing in schools, health clinics, housing, infrastructure and improved access to water. The UN also pointed to trade as being a key factor which was improving conditions in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. These improvements have not been picked up in the past when poverty has been measured strictly in income terms without taking into account other factors – health, education and living standards.
The study of the world's poorest one billion people uses a new measure, the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which was just updated in the 2013 UN report. It includes ten indicators to calculate poverty – nutrition, child mortality, years of schooling and attendance, cooking fuel, water, sanitation, electricity assets and a covered floor.
The initiative hopes insights from the MPI will incentivise international donors and governments to help the poorest by allowing the results to be measured. The academics believe old methods of looking at income levels – such as those living on $1.25 a day or less – ignores other deprivations in, for example, nutrition, health and sanitation.
The system was developed in 2010 by the institute's director, Dr Sabina Alkire, and Dr Maria Emma Santos. Dr Alkire said: "As poor people worldwide have said, poverty is more than money – it is ill health, it is food insecurity, it is not having work, or experiencing violence and humiliation, or not having health care, electricity, or good housing.
"Citizen activism is under-appreciated for its role. Maybe we have been overlooking the power of the people themselves, women who are empowering each other, civil society pulling itself up."
The study found that in 2013 a total of 1.6 billion people are living in "multidimensional" poverty. The poorest one billion live in 100 countries. Most of the bottom billion live in South Asia, with India home to 40%, followed by sub-Saharan Africa with 33%. The report also found that 9.5% of the bottom billion poor people lived in developed, upper middle-income countries.
Poor Nations, most, were exploited by bullies that became rich exploiting the weak Nations
Africa the richest "natural resources" continent on planet .. but the poorest continent and Nations
The bullies, French, Brits, Belgium, Americans were (and still are) stealing the natural resources of any kind of African (and Middle Eastern and Central Asian and Far Eastern) continent
That is changing, and the changing accelerating, thanks to many factors .. Lion not lion used to be
In that sense, Doc, yes, Its the end of the third world as we know it
That's what Iran is all about .. West not yet ready to swallow those good old days behind us (needing convincing )
well ,
.
Thank You for your post, Azari.
Sometimes Poor but Tough Nations bully and exploit the Rich....Poor Nations, most, were exploited by bullies that became rich exploiting the weak Nations
For example, a Gang of Randy Religious Fanatics who Boiled Out of the Hot Hell of Arabia to Ruin both the Pomegranates and the Roman Byzantines ..........
Forgot to mention the Turks, the Arabs and ESPECIALLY the Mongols and Germans.........The bullies, French, Brits, Belgium, Americans
Also the Russian Bears..........
The Muslim Turks and Arabs were into slaving and the Mongols & Germans into worse...........
Even the Bad News Russian Bears were usually more Bearable than the Mongols.....
And the Germans....
.
Fully agree, Monster
yes, you right, we on the same page
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Re: Its the end of the third world as we know it
I look forward to the day when self-appointed humanitarians, international so-called development bureaucracies, and mind everyone else's business NGOs in the industrialized world will be out of a job.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.