The Goal: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

What Do We Want to Achieve?

• Reduce by half the number of people who live on less than $1 per day
• Guarantee stable employment
• Reduce by half the number of people who live in hunger

What Have We Already Achieved?

• We have reduced the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 per day by 600 million
• Between 1990 and 2008, the poverty rate dropped from 47% to 24%, despite world population growth

What Challenges Remain?

• There are still 850 million people living in hunger in the world
• Child malnutrition remains a concern. In 2010, almost 1/3 of children in Southern Asia were underweight

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