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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Poverty in the world

According to the human development index(HDI),Of the 50 poorest countries in the world,33 are in sub-Saharan Africa. Malnutrition, poverty, illiteracy, dire health situation ... the continent is the first casualty of the widening inequalities in the world. 1.4 billion people live still under the poverty line,this a quarter of the planet.
On the one hand politicians, who are often foreign to the ordinary life of their citizens. In the other men and women who were so hard to live and so few ways to be heard.

Despite the many positive developments of recent decades, poverty is the main problem that the world knows. More than 1, 2 billion people live in abject poverty and more than half of them suffer every day from hunger. It also considers:
• Every year more than 12 million children die under five, or 40 000 per day;
•That life expectancy is shorter than 10 years in developing countries than in Northern and shorter than 20 years in sub-Saharan Africa;
• That 800 million people in developing countries lack access to health care and they are 1.3 billion to not having safe drinking water;
•That food production per capita in Africa fell by 12% between 1961 and 1995;
• There is one doctor for 36 000 people in sub-Saharan Africa, while the corresponding figure for industrialized countries is one doctor per 400 inhabitants;

• That nearly 900 million adults, 75% of women are illiterate.

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