The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day to half the 1990 level by 2015-from 29 percent of all people in low and middle income economies to 14.5 percent.
f achieved, this would reduce the number of people living in extreme poverty to 890 million or to 750 million if growth stays on track. And while poverty would not be eradicated, that would bring us much closer to the day when we can say that all the world’s people have at least the bare minimum to eat and clothe themselves.
Target 1 Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day.
Target 2 Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
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