Poverty Facts and Stats


	Poverty Facts and Stats

skwirlinator

9-20-2007 1:55 AM

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9-20-2007 2:46 AM

skwirlinator

Some of these statistics are very sad.

9-20-2007 9:22 PM

tommcmahan27

It just amases me to see these numbres with so many things that need to be done, if only some rich people would part with their money to make it happen.

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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp"><H1 id="start-body">Poverty Facts and Stats</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp"><LI class="author">by Anup Shah</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp"><LI class="odd">Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day. <SUP><A href="#fact1" id="link_15"><SPAN class="no-css">source </SPAN>1</A></SUP></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp"><LI class="odd">Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. <SUP><A href="#fact3" id="link_17"><SPAN class="no-css">source </SPAN>3</A></SUP></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp"><LI class="odd">51 percent of the world’s 100 hundred wealthiest bodies are corporations. <SUP><A href="#fact5" id="link_19"><SPAN class="no-css">source </SPAN>5</A></SUP></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp"><LI class="odd">The poorer the country, the more likely it is that debt repayments are being extracted directly from people who neither contracted the loans nor received any of the money. <SUP><A href="#fact7" id="link_21"><SPAN class="no-css">source </SPAN>7</A></SUP></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world’s goods. <SUP><A href="#fact8" id="link_22"><SPAN class="no-css">source </SPAN>8</A></SUP></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp"><DT>Number of children in the world</DT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp"><DD>2.2 billion</DD></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp"><DT>Number in poverty</DT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp"><DD>1 billion (every second child)</DD></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp"><DT>Children out of education worldwide</DT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp"><DD>121 million</DD></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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