The State of Global Poverty

Yes, global growth has raised billions of people out of poverty.

Global security cannot be built on a minefield of poverty and disease.

World Employment Report 2004 2005 Employment, Productivity and Poverty Reduction.

The Fourth World Conference on Women had identified the eradication of poverty among women as an integral component of poverty alleviation strategies.

There is wide consensus that coordinated global and national action is needed in the fight against poverty and that in order to formulate effective poverty eradication strategies, the root causes of poverty have to be recognized and understood.

If this process is allowed to take its course, it will stimulate global growth and serve to reduce poverty.

Delayed job recovery from the global downturn remains a major challenge for poverty reduction in the coming years.

We reaffirm our commitment to eradicate poverty and promote sustained economic growth, sustainable development and global prosperity for all

In particular, we committed ourselves to fight extreme poverty, preventable diseases, human conflict, environmental degradation and global warming.

We only ranked high when it comes to poverty, corruption, lack of freedom of speech, lack of political activism.

Blair has promised that he will make the fight against poverty and long term climate change the two priorities of the summit.

At the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the World Tourism Organization had launched the concept of sustainable tourism as a tool for poverty elimination.

It is possible to build another world, a world consistent with the United Nations vision of universal human rights, global peace and the eradication of extreme poverty.

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In order to reduce poverty and promote global prosperity for all, I urge Heads of State and Government to

Strengthened action is needed in order to ensure that the international community delivers on its undertakings to reduce global poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

The World Summit had also recognized that the sustainable development of indigenous peoples and their communities was critical to the fight against poverty and hunger and for social inclusion.

Global support for making poverty history shows how the issue of Third World poverty has finally struck a responsive chord.

If the global poverty reduction target is met, it will be due to high growth in emerging countries such as China or India rather than to a decline in absolute poverty in the neediest countries.

In order to address global poverty effectively, world leaders must pursue poverty reduction policies that support inclusive, sustainable economic growth and development in turn increasing the fiscal resources that are available for social spending.

Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.

These will be used for planning and leveraging resources, including through PRS frameworks and the Global Fund.

We must focus attention on poverty eradication and sustainable development, as these tasks are fundamental if we are to ensure global peace and security and human rights for all.

For the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), the conservation of natural resources and ecosystems is a fundamental underpinning of world food security and poverty alleviation.

Although it had bypassed several developing regions, especially sub Saharan Africa, the global decline in absolute poverty represented a significant achievement.

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Under Wolfensohn, the World Bank followed through on this comprehensive and coordinated approach in a concrete fashion, making significant inroads into global poverty.

This is why international action to address both global poverty and global inequality is needed.

As it integrates into the world economy, it must seek to sustain growth while protecting the environment and reducing poverty and inequality.

Thus, the global commitment to eradicating poverty should be on a sustained basis and not just in response to financial emergencies or national calamities.

Note 2 A proposal was made to add Disasters have a huge detrimental impact on efforts at all levels to reduce global poverty .

In 2004 the Campaign and its partners in civil society helped to secure a major breakthrough with the launch of the Global Call to Action against Poverty, the largest campaign coalition against poverty assembled in recent years.

Also recognizing that for the poverty eradication strategy to be effective it is imperative for developing countries to be integrated into the world economy and equitably share the benefits of globalization,

Recognizing also that for the poverty eradication strategy to be effective it is imperative for developing countries to be integrated into the world economy and equitably share the benefits of globalization,

Recognizing also that, for the poverty eradication strategy to be effective, it is imperative that developing countries be integrated into the world economy and share equitably in the benefits of globalization,

Mr. Muda (Malaysia) said that little had been achieved, despite all the recent international commitments and global awareness of the need to combat poverty.

We can halve global poverty and stem the spread of major diseases, promote gender equality and empower women in 10 years time.

The decisive influence of China and India's economic growth on the overall levels of economic expansion has had a huge impact on global poverty levels.

Recognizing also the positive impact that youth participation in the global economy and in social and economic development can have on the eradication of poverty and hunger,

At the start of the new millennium, the world s leaders got together to adopt the Millennium Development Goals, the global commitment to halve extreme poverty by 2015.

The greatest successes in fighting global poverty have come from China and India, two countries that have largely pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps.

These flows are made possible mainly by tax havens, so the fight against global poverty should also be a fight against them.

Young people recognize that their health is directly linked to other priority areas in the World Programme of Action for Youth, principally poverty and hunger, education and the environment.

The Committee is grateful to have this opportunity to offer these brief comments which we trust will be helpful to sovereign states in their decision making relative to ending extreme poverty within their countries.