This document discusses poverty and progress towards eradicating extreme poverty and hunger in Nepal. It states that extreme poverty in Nepal dropped from 33.5% of the population in 1990 to 16.4% in 2013, achieving the UN goal of reducing extreme poverty rates. National surveys found that the incidence of poverty declined by 1 percentage point per year between 2005 and 2013. Nepal also nearly met its goal of reducing the proportion of underweight children two years early and achieved its goal of halving the population consuming less than the minimum dietary energy.

1. Introduction on poverty
• Inability of people to attain a minimum
standard of living known as poverty
• Absolute: severe deprivation of basic human
need.
• Relative: economic inequality In society
• Cause ?

3. GOAL.1
Eradicate extreme poverty and
hunger
• Nepal has made commendable progress on reducing
extreme poverty and hunger in the MDG period
(2000–2015).
• Extreme poverty dropped from 33.5 percent of the
population in 1990 to 16.4 % in 2013 there by
achieving the target of having the poverty rate by
2015.

4. • rate of reduction was quicker between 2000
and 2015.
• (NLSSs) found the incidence of poverty to have
declined by one percentage point per year
between 2005 and 2013.

5. • The employment to population ratio
decreased from 84.3 percent in 2000 to 81.7
percent in 2008 (as reported in 2010) with 2.3
million people (above 15 years of age)
employed in 2008, substantially more than in
1998.

7. • Another noteworthy achievement is the
reduction of hunger.
• the lack of resources that leads to hunger and
physical deprivation

8. • The country almost met the target of reducing
by half the proportion of underweight
children (aged 6 to 59 months) two years early
in 2013

9. • achieved the target of halving the proportion
of the population who consume less than the
minimum level of dietary energy consumption
in 2012 (22.5 percent achieved against the 25
percent target).