1) While global poverty rates have decreased by over half since 2000, over 736 million people still live below the international poverty line of $1.90 per day. 2) Poverty rates remain highest in Sub-Saharan Africa, where up to 42% of the population lives in poverty. 3) Ending poverty in all its forms by 2030 is the first of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to provide adequate resources and ensure equal rights and access to services for all people.

1. No Poverty
While global poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 2000, one in ten
people in developing regions still lives on less than US$ 1.90 a day - the internationally
agreed poverty line, and millions of others live on slightly more than this daily amount.
Significant progress has been made in many countries within Eastern and Southeastern
Asia, but up to 42 per cent of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to live below
the poverty line. Poverty entails more than the lack of income and productive resources
to ensure sustainable livelihoods. Its manifestations include hunger and malnutrition,
limited access to education and other basic services, social discrimination and exclusion,
as well as the lack of participation in decision-making. In 2015, more than 736 million
people lived below the international poverty line. Around 10 per cent of the world
population is living in extreme poverty and struggling to fulfil the most basic needs like
health, education, and access to water and sanitation, to name a few. There are 122
women aged 25 to 34 living in poverty for every 100 men of the same age group, and
more than 160 million children are at risk of continuing to live in extreme poverty by 2030.
Ending poverty in all its forms is the first of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The SDGs’ main reference to combatting poverty is made in target 1. “Ensure
significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through
enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means
for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement
programmed and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions. “The SDGs also aim to

2. create sound policy frameworks at national and regional levels, based on pro-poor and
gender-sensitive development strategies to ensure that by 2030 all men and women have
equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and
control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate
new technology and financial services, including microfinance.
First, there is the liability model, which can be roughly described by means of two
components. It connects responsibility with directly causing harmful outcomes and
assigns responsibilities only to agents who perform the action in question voluntarily and
with adequate knowledge of the situation. In this model, it is clear that responsibilities are
assigned to concrete agents there is, from this point of view, no problem for the agent-
centered approach we want to develop. Difficulties arise, however, when we are
confronted with structural injustices, where the causal relationships of causing harms are
often diffuse. Such structural injustices are often the result of numerous uncoordinated
individual actions, which, taken one by one, cannot always be deemed morally
problematic. Taken together, however, they might lead to consequences that impose
significant constraints on many members of society, leading to inequality and poverty. As
a young student, I would like to suggest some factors which would be helpful in our
journey to reduce poverty. Basically, we have to take necessary steps to reduce the
population in our world. Natural resources don’t increase according to the population
which is increasing at a high speed. When we consider the families in poor countries, they
have at least six or seven kids. But those kids do not have a proper health or the parents
cannot provide proper education for them. And also, those parents cannot provide good
foods filled with suitable nutrients to their kids due to lack of wealth. Because of that their

3. healthiness decreases by a considerable amount. The development of their brains
becomes insufficient and due to that their ability to get a proper education -decrease.