Marginal Poverty Reduction - it's a start....!
United Nations Development Program
Over the past decade, Sub-Saharan Africa’s impressive economic performance has resulted in marginal poverty reduction, with the proportion of people living on less than US$ 1.25 a day decreasing from 56.5 percent in 1990 to 47.5 percent in 2008.
Africa also boasts a mixed record on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the eight internationally-agreed targets which aim to reduce poverty, hunger, maternal and child deaths, disease, inadequate shelter, gender inequality and environmental degradation by 2015.
Africa has sustained progress toward several MDGs and is on track to achieve the following targets by 2015: universal primary education; achieving gender parity at all levels of education; reducing HIV/AIDS prevalence among 15-24 year olds; increasing the proportion of people with access to antiretroviral drugs; and enhancing the proportion of women in national parliaments.
Other targets are unlikely to be met. These include reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, slowing down the loss of biodiversity and achieving full and productive employment. Other targets, such as access to safe drinking water and reducing hunger, will only be partially met if efforts are not stepped up.
Over the past decade, Sub-Saharan Africa’s impressive economic performance has resulted in marginal poverty reduction, with the proportion of people living on less than US$ 1.25 a day decreasing from 56.5 percent in 1990 to 47.5 percent in 2008.Africa also boasts a mixed record on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the eight internationally-agreed targets which aim to reduce poverty, hunger, maternal and child deaths, disease, inadequate shelter, gender inequality and environmental degradation by 2015.
Africa has sustained progress toward several MDGs and is on track to achieve the following targets by 2015: universal primary education; achieving gender parity at all levels of education; reducing HIV/AIDS prevalence among 15-24 year olds; increasing the proportion of people with access to antiretroviral drugs; and enhancing the proportion of women in national parliaments.
Other targets are unlikely to be met. These include reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, slowing down the loss of biodiversity and achieving full and productive employment. Other targets, such as access to safe drinking water and reducing hunger, will only be partially met if efforts are not stepped up.
