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Nearly half of the world's population lives on less than $2.50 per day and over 1 billion live on less than $1.25 per day. More than 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water. Preventable diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia kill 2 million children per year who cannot afford treatment. It would cost $40 billion to provide basic education, clean water, health services, and nutrition to all people in developing countries.
Nearly half of the world's population lives on less than $2.50 per day and over 1 billion live on less than $1.25 per day. More than 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water. Preventable diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia kill 2 million children per year who cannot afford treatment. It would cost $40 billion to provide basic education, clean water, health services, and nutrition to all people in developing countries.
Nearly half of the world's population lives on less than $2.50 per day and over 1 billion live on less than $1.25 per day. More than 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water. Preventable diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia kill 2 million children per year who cannot afford treatment. It would cost $40 billion to provide basic education, clean water, health services, and nutrition to all people in developing countries.
• Nearly half of the world’s population — more than 3 billion
people — live on less than $2.50 a day. More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty (less than $1.25 a day). • The gap between rich and poor grows and is larger now than it has ever been in recorded history. • More than 1 billion people lack adequate access to clean drinking water and an estimated 400 million of these are children. Because unclean water yields illness, roughly 443 million school days are missed every year Basic Facts about Poverty • In 2011, 165 million children under the age 5 were stunted (reduced rate of growth and development) due to chronic malnutrition. • 870 million people worldwide do not have enough food to eat. • Preventable diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia take the lives of 2 million children a year who are too poor to afford proper treatment. Basic Facts about Poverty • 80 percent of the world population lives on less than $10 a day. • Poverty and Disease: – AIDS – 30 million dead. – 2 billion infected with Tuberculosis. 9.2 million new cases per year. – 1 million deaths from Malaria a year. • It would cost approximately $40 billion to offer basic education, clean water and sanitation, reproductive health for women, and basic health and nutrition to every person in every developing country. CAUSE OF POVERTY Global Justice • The idea that we have duties of justice to all human beings based solely on their humanity alone, without reference to nationality, citizenship, ethnicity, race, religion, gender or other particularities. • If justice is defined as ‘just treatment and the quality of being fair and equitable……’ • Then global justice refers to just treatment of all humans and the quality of being fair and equitable to those beyond our borders. Drivers of Poverty • Profit shifting by large Int’l corporations • Capital flight • Large national debt loads • Unequal market access or conditionalities • Large scale corruption • Disease burdens • General lack of political will Preventing Known Harm Even if you don’t buy the positive moral argument…. • Negative argument – would you knowingly want to harm another human being? • According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization there is enough food produced to adequately feed the world population. • The largest driver of poverty is unfair economic and political structures that perpetuate inequities. • Western lifestyles are paid for from the poverty of others. • Is 40 billion really too much?