DVM 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: United Nations Development Programme, Gross National Income, Extreme Poverty

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: International Development and Globalization
• Course: DVM 2110
• Professor: Sonia Gulati

Document Summary

It"s a vicious cycle that is hard to get out of. Often you are vulnerable, if there is only one bread winner and they lose their job you"re screwed. Why don"t poverty interventions work? (why can"t we just give people money?) Extreme poverty has declined in the recent years. Approximately 1. 2 billion people in the world live in extreme poverty (less than one dollar per day). Poverty creates ill-health because it forces people to live in environments that make them sick, without decent shelter, clean water or adequate sanitation. The developing world attained the first mdg target to cut the 1990 poverty rate in half by 2015. The 1990 extreme poverty rate . 25 a day in 2005 prices was halved in 2010. 1. 22 billion people lived on less than . 25 a day in 2010, compared with 1. 91 billion in 1990. Progress has been slower at higher poverty lines (i. e. , us a day).