1) According to statistics presented, extreme poverty declined between 1990 and 2010 but over 1 billion people still live in extreme poverty, defined as living on less than $1.25 per day. 2) 870 million people, or 1 in 8 worldwide, did not consume enough food to meet their minimum dietary needs from 2010 to 2012. 3) In 2011, 57 million children of primary school age were out of school.

1. SHARING THE EARTH’S
RESOURCES
By Marvin B. Gonzaga

2. About 700 million fewer
people lived in conditions
of extreme poverty in 2010
than in 1990.
Poverty rates have been
halved between 1990 and
2010, but1.2 billion people
still live in extreme poverty.
Proportion of
people living
on less than
$1.25 a day,
1990 and 2010
(Percentage)
(source: The Millennium
Development Goals
Report 2013)
The economic and
financial crisis has
widened the global
jobs gap by 67 million
people.

3. did not consume enough
food on a regular basis
to cover their minimum
dietary
energy requirements
over the period 2010 to
2012.
According to new
estimates, about
870 million
people or
1 in 8 worldwide

4. Globally,
123 million youth
(aged 15 to 24)
lack basic reading and
writing skills; 61 per
cent of them are young
women.
By the end of
2012, some
45.1 million people
worldwide were
forcibly displaced due
to conflict or
persecution.
6.9 million
children under
age five died in 2011—
mostly from
preventable diseases.
In 2011,
57 million
children of primary
school age were out of
school
The global
ratio of employment to the
working-age population
declined from
61.3% in 2007 to
60.3 in 2012
In about
46 million
of the 135 million
live births in 2011,
women delivered
alone or with
inadequate care.
Additional Statistics

5. Structural violence
refers to the systems, institutions, and policies that meet
some people’s needs, rights, or wants at the expense of
others

6. Other Causes of Poverty
WAR
POLITICAL SYSTEMS
INEQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION
OF WEALTH AND RESOURCES
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
OVER-UTILIZATION OF RESOURC
LACK OF OPPORTUNITIES
LACK OF EDUCATION
CORRUPTION
OVERCONSUMPTION
GREED

7. Economic Globalization – refers to the economic integration of the world’s
countries through increased flow of goods and services, capital and labor
(Stiglitz, 2007)
Benefits:
 the promotion of economic efficiency
 the expansion of opportunities for growth and development thereby
reducing poverty and inequity and enhancing human development and
security
The “Promise” of Economic Globalization

8. Challenging Economic Inequity
Global
 Establish a new economic order that is fair
 Wealthy countries should open up their markets to
poor countries without conditionality
 Developed countries should provide unconditional debt
relief
 Assistance given to developing nations should be
given in the
form of grants without condition
 Rich countries should open access to technologies
 Reduce military expenditures so that more resources
would be
made available

9. National
 A genuine agrarian reform program should be implemented
 Government should increase subsidy for education
 Government and private lending institutions should institute credit
reforms
 Government should provide training skills programs
 Progressive taxation reforms should be instituted to increase the
purchasing power of the poor
 Rural infrastructure should be developed
 The government should make itself more accessible and visible through
decentralization
 Transnational corporations should be obliged to make contributions
 A code of conduct should be set for transnational corporations to follow
 Reduce military expenditures so that more resources would be
made available