eradicating extreme poverty ted x_bristol

Eradicating extreme poverty

Judith Randel:Executive Director of Development Initiatives

TedXBristol: September 15th, 2012

Extreme $1.25 a day poverty is falling: from 40% in 1981, to 25% in 2008

2015 & 2025: World Bank projections

Source: Rowntree studies in York, UK: 1899/1936/1950

27.5% 18%

1.5%

A percentage of UK population was living in absolute poverty as recently as 1950

If nothing changes, it will be 2080 before extreme poverty is eradicated

Brazil: committed to eradicate absolute poverty by 2015

How long does it take a UK citizen to earn the annual income in...

DRC: 2 days

Bihar, India: 5

days

India: 13.5 days

Burundi: 1.8 days

DRC: £0.28

Burundi £0.31

Daily income around the world

Buruni : £0.31

Somalia: £0.12

Aid as % of public expenditure (2010)

0.31%

2.42%

1.94 %

1.83%1.2%

0.89%

0.83%

0.75%

0.57%

0.51%

0.50%

0.37%

0.29%

Buruni : £0.31

Somalia: £0.12

% of GNI spent on aid in 2011 by DAC aid donor countries

0.31%

About Development Initiatives

Our vision is the end of absolute poverty by 2025.

Our mission is to empower and enable people to make evidence-based and data-informed

decisions that deliver more effective use of resources for poverty eradication.

info@devinit.org

Please contact us at Development Initiatives

For help with data on aid, development finance and poverty

judith@devinit.org

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