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POVERTY ERADICATION
UNMD III. Development and Poverty Eradication: 11.
We will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject
and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billion of
them are currently subjected. We are committed to making the right to
development a reality for everyone, and to freeing the entire human race from
want. 19. We resolve further: To halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the
world’s people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of
people who suffer from hunger; and also, by the same date, to halve the
proportion of people who are unable to reach, or to afford, safe drinking
water. 20. We also resolve: To develop strong partnerships with the private
sector, and with civil society organizations, in pursuit of development and
poverty eradication.
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Human Development Report 1997: Human Development to
Eradicate Poverty
Eradicating poverty everywhere
is more than a moral imperative - it is a practical possibility. That is the
most important message of the Human Development Report 1997. The world has the
resources and the know-how to create a poverty-free world in less than a
generation.
The Report focuses
not just on poverty of incomes but on poverty from a human development
perspective - poverty as a denial of choices and opportunities for living a
tolerable life. The strategies proposed in the Report go beyond income
redistribution - encompassing action in the critical areas of gender equality,
pro-poor growth, globalization and the democratic governance of development.