Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target
Halve between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less then one dollar a day
Target
Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
Health indicators:
- Prevalence of underweight children under five years of age
- Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption
Recommended reading
- The Millennium Development Goals report 2006
- ( UN , 2006)
- This report considers progress made by the international community towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's). The authors assert that there are significant challenges ahead if the MDG's are to ...
- Halving hunger: it can be done
- ( P. Sanchez; M.S. Swaminathan; P. Dobie; N. Yuksel / Millennium Project , 2005)
- This final report of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger sets out it’s recommendations and interventions for achieving the millennium development goal of halving world hunger by 2015. The r...
- Greater DFID and EC leadership on chronic malnutrition: opportunities and constraints
- ( A. Sumner; J. Lindstrom; L. Haddad / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2007)
- This report by the Institute of Development Studies and commissioned by Save the Children UK (SC UK) assesses the commitment currently demonstrated by the United Kingdom (UK) Department For Internatio...
- Malnutrition and health in developing countries
- ( O. Müller; M. Krawinkel / Canadian Medical Association Journal , 2005)
- This paper in the Canadian Medical Association Journal provides an overview of the trends, determinants, clinical features, management and control of protein–energy malnutrition (a lack of sufficient ...
- Measuring health and poverty: a review of approaches to identifying the poor
- ( J. Falkingham; C. Namazie / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre , 2002)
- Although poverty reduction is the overall goal, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) include improving health and other social development objectives. But the health MDGs need to be more explicit a...
- Progress for children: a report card on nutrition
- ( United Nations [UN] Children's Fund , 2006)
- Undernutrition contributes to the deaths of about 5.6 million children under five in the developing world each year. It can lead to poor school performance and dropout, it threatens girls' future abil...
