2. Competence Aims:
Culture, society and literature.
The aims of the studies are
to enable pupils to
elaborate on and discuss a
number of international and
global challenges.
3. Developing and Developed
Countries:
Blue: Advanced Economies.
Yellow: Emerging and developing
economies.
A developing country is a country that
often has:
Low standards of democratic
governments.
Poorly developed industrialization.
Inadequate social programs.
Few human rights guarantees for its
citizens.
A low level of material well-being.
Not the least developed
Red: Emerging and developing
economies.
Third World countries are often described
as “developing”
The least developed
First World countries or industrialized
nations are often described as
“developed”.
4. What is Poverty?
Poverty is hunger.
Poverty is lack of shelter/home.
Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a
doctor – no access to medical treatment.
Poverty is not having a job.
Poverty is fear for the future -living one day at a time.
Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by
unclean water and poor sanitation.
Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and
freedom.
5. Living Below the Poverty Line:
A common method used to measure poverty is
based on incomes or consumption levels.
A person is considered poor if his or her
consumption or income level falls below some
minimum level necessary to meet basic needs.
This minimum level is usually called the "poverty
line”.
Living below the poverty line:
Extreme economic poverty today is defined as
living on less than $ 1 to1.25 per day .
6. The Wealth Divide I:
Global Poverty
An estimated 1.2 billion people live on less
than a dollar a day.
2.7 billion people live on less than $2 a day.
The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the
poorest 48 nations (of the world's countries)
is less than the combined wealth of the
world's 3 richest people.
10 million people die every year from
hunger and hunger-related diseases.
Almost half of the victims are children.
Approximately 790 million people in the
developing world are chronically
undernourished almost two-thirds reside in
Asia and the Pacific.
1,3 billion have no access to clean water
3 billion have no access to sanitation
2 billion have no access to electricity
923 million people worldwide suffer from
hunger (1 in 8).
907 million of the the hungry are from
developing countries
Nearly 1 billion people are unable to read a
book or sign their names
7. The Wealth Divide II:
Global Wealth
A few hundred millionaires own as much
wealth as the world's poorest 2,5 billion people
The richest 50 million people in Europe and
North America have the same income as 2,7
billion poor people
12% of the world's population use 85% of its
water.
These 12% do not live in the Third World
20% of the population in developed nations
consume 86% of the world's goods
0.13% of the world's population controlled 25%
of the world's assets in 2004.
8. This Is How We Spent Our Money in
1998:
Global Priority
Cosmetics in the United States
Ice cream in Europe
Perfumes in Europe and the United States
Pet foods in Europe and the United States
Business entertainment in Japan
Cigarettes in Europe
Alcoholic drinks in Europe
Narcotic drugs in the world
Military spending in the world
$U.S. Billions
8
11
12
17
35
50
105
400
780
9. Estimated Costs Providing Basic Education, Water,
Sanitation, Health and Food for All in Developing
Countries:
Global Priority
$U.S. Billions
Basic education for all
6
Water and sanitation for all
9
Reproductive health for all women
12
Basic health and nutrition
13
10. Child Poverty:
Number of children in the world:
2.2 billion .
Number of children in poverty:
1 billion .
Every second child in the world lives in
poverty.
11. ”There is plenty of food in the world – still they
die from starvation”:
Poor people lack money to buy enough food
They are constantly malnourished
They become weaker and often sick
This makes them increasingly less able to work
Inability to work makes them even poorer and
hungrier
This downward spiral often continues until
death for them and their families.
12. Death Rates for Poor
Children:
26,500-30,000 children die each day due to
poverty (UNICEF).
10,6 million children died in 2003 before they
reached the age of 5 .
1,4 million children die each year from lack of
access to safe drinking water and adequate
sanitation .
400 million people with no access to safe water (1 in 5) .
Almost 5 million children die every year from
hunger and hunger-related diseases .
The majority of 1.8 million child deaths each year
are from diarrhea caused by dirty water and poor
sanitation .
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almost 5,000 every day.
-
making diarrhea the second largest cause of child
mortality.
640 million children without adequate shelter (1 in
3)
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1.3 million people die from malaria each year due
poor sanitation .
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More than half of these deaths are caused by
malnutrition.
malnutrition claim.s a child's life every 5 seconds.
90% of these are children under the age of five.
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1,700,000 children will die needlessly each year
because world governments fail to reduce poverty
levels.
Most of these children are from developing
countries.
Approximately 146 million children in
developing countries are underweight.
13. Lack of Education:
Children without access to
education worldwide:
121 million .
more than 115 million children
are out of schools.
some 62 million of them are
girls.
14. Health of Children:
Worldwide:
270 million children with no access to health
services (1 in 7).
2,2 million children die each year because they
are not immunized .
39.5 million people live with HIV/AIDS .
63 percent of which live in Sub-Saharan Africa.
More than 10 million children in Africa have been
orphaned by AIDS.
Girls and women are especially vulnerable to HIV
infection and AIDS.
Globally, more than half of all people living with
HIV are female.
15. Goals for the 21st century:
The Poverty Goal by 2015
Reducing the number of people living on less than a dollar a day
by half by 2015.
A reduction of extremely poor by 363 million people by 2015
189 countries signed the Millennium Development Goals Declaration in
September 2000.
The MDGs consist of eight goals to be reached by 2015:
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve primary education for all (basic education)
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
Guarantee environmental sustainability
Develop a global partnership for development