MDG on Poverty not Achievable
Rethinking Poverty , the 2010 Report on the World Social Situation issued by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs laments, over reliance on market forces and economic liberalization have led to neglect of nationally designed and developmentally-oriented strategies , to the detriment of the world's poor . The report concludes that, using 1.25 dollar a day as the international poverty line, there are 1.4 billion people living below poverty today, declining from 1.9 billion in 1981 but this decrease in due to the efforts of BRIC countries, mainly China. According to the report, during 2007-08, about 100 million people in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia, because of acute food crises, have been badly affected while another 200 million as a result of global and financial crises of 2008-09. The figures seem to be on lower side as in many countries, particularly India, the debate about below poverty line ) BPL ) has refused to die. The Government is sticking to the Pla...