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Global povertyHeart-rending, individual stories make up a global picture in whichhunger and malnutrition are the number one health risk, killingmore people than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.Hunger gnaws at the stomachs of one in every four living in Sub-Saharan Africa. Children are considered lucky to make it to theirfifth birthday – 11 million a year don’t.And while households in industrialised countries can use up to50 litres of water per day by just flushing the toilet, over one billionpeople don’t even have access to the 20-50 litres of safe freshwaterconsidered necessary to ensure basic needs for drinking, cookingand cleaning. The diseases associated with this lack of access tosafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene arecosting thousands of people their lives each day.Global poverty is a predominantly rural phenomenon: the meagerlivelihoods of three-quarters of those in extreme poverty are dependenton natural resources which are constantly being depleted.Over the past half century more than a quarter of the world’s8.7 billion hectares of agricultural lands, pastures, forests andwoodlands have been degraded. This is very bad news both forthe poor and their environment. The good news is that povertycan be eradicated.© ECDidyou know…In 2006 European aid ranto some €48bn, that’snearly €100 percitizenWhat the EU’s doingThe EU considers development cooperation the key to solvingthe problem of global poverty and is working alongside both internationalplayers (United Nations, World Trade Organisation,international financial organisations) and regional players (inAfrican, Latin American, Caribbean and Pacific countries) toprovide effective responses to the many challenges facingthe world’s poorest people.It has made a firm commitment to the eight targets set atthe 2000 UN Millennium Summit which have a deadline of2015. These Millennium Development Goals aim to:• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger• Achieve universal primary education• Strengthen gender equality• Reduce child mortality064
Global poverty© EC• Improve maternal health• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases• Ensure environmental sustainability• Develop a global partnership for developmentAt the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development inJohannesburg, the EU launched two initiatives designed to guaranteesupplies of water and energy – two essential components topoverty reduction. The first – the Water for Life initiative – aims tohalve the number of people without access to safe drinking waterand adequate sanitation by 2015. The second – the Energy Initiativefor Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development – seeks toattract new resources in terms of capital, technology and humanresources from the private sector and financial institutions.Trade is another essential component of growth. Under theCotonou Agreement which runs until 2020, the EU is workingwith African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to achieve theirgradual integration into the global economy. With Latin America,a range of agreements have been concluded based on a strengtheningof economic cooperation, institutionalised political dialogueand trade relations. The EU is now Latin America’s number oneforeign investor and second biggest trading partner. In Asia, whichis home to two-thirds of the world’s poor, the EU is contributingto a third of the continent’s total aid. The EU’s overall target is toraise the volume of aid donated to developing countries to 0.7%of its countries’ Gross National Income by 2015.Debt relief is also high on the European agenda. The EU is animportant player in the World Bank and International MonetaryFund’s initiative to cancel the debts of heavily indebted poorcountries. So far, full debt relief has been given to 18 countries,including Bolivia, Madagascar, Tanzania and Uganda.065
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Global povertyHeart-rending, individual stories make up a global picture in whichhunger and malnutrition are the number one health risk, killingmore people than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.Hunger gnaws at the stomachs of one in every four living in Sub-Saharan Africa. Children are considered lucky to make it to theirfifth birthday – 11 million a year don’t.And while households in industrialised countries can use up to50 litres of water per day by just flushing the toilet, over one billionpeople don’t even have access to the 20-50 litres of safe freshwaterconsidered necessary to ensure basic needs for drinking, cookingand cleaning. The diseases associated with this lack of access tosafe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene arecosting thousands of people their lives each day.Global poverty is a predominantly rural phenomenon: the meagerlivelihoods of three-quarters of those in extreme poverty are dependenton natural resources which are constantly being depleted.Over the past half century more than a quarter of the world’s8.7 billion hectares of agricultural lands, pastures, forests andwoodlands have been degraded. This is very bad news both forthe poor and their environment. The good news is that povertycan be eradicated.© ECDidyou know…In 2006 European aid ranto some €48bn, that’snearly €100 percitizenWhat the EU’s doingThe EU considers development cooperation the key to solvingthe problem of global poverty and is working alongside both internationalplayers (United Nations, World Trade Organisation,international financial organisations) and regional players (inAfrican, Latin American, Caribbean and Pacific countries) toprovide effective responses to the many challenges facingthe world’s poorest people.It has made a firm commitment to the eight targets set atthe 2000 UN Millennium Summit which have a deadline of2015. These Millennium Development Goals aim to:• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger• Achieve universal primary education• Strengthen gender equality• Reduce child mortality064
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