World Bank: Time for poverty eradication

World Bank: Time for poverty eradication



04/21/2013 17:30:08



The future of Iraq / agencies approved finance officials from around the world, the goal of the World Bank to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030, and emphasized the need to "focus on ensuring that the poor of strong growth and growing prosperity in developing countries." Said World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, following Development Committee meeting in the bank "for the first time in history, are committed to developing the goal to eradicate poverty. Is no longer a world free of poverty just a dream, but we set a deadline to eliminate it. "And aimed at the target to reduce the proportion of people living in extreme poverty to three percent of the world and targeting the poorest 40 percent of the population of each developing country on unit. Growing developing economies by about six percent annually, and lift every year millions of people out of poverty helps in the formation of a new middle class in the world. and Development Committee said "We recognize that sustainable economic growth needed to reduce inequality. And investments that create opportunities for all citizens and to support gender equality an important goal in itself as well as for being an integral part of achieving prosperity. "And seeks new target to guide the work of the World Bank and coincides with the UN efforts to develop a strategy to combat poverty beyond 2015 to replace the current targets . Based on the latest figures issued by the World Bank this week that the poverty rate in the world fell to 21 percent in 2010 from 43 percent in 1990 and concentrated most of the poor are currently in the region of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, while China succeeded in reducing extreme poverty. Kim said "The ministers discussed climate change and the need for more investment in health and education." said Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund said that "the best opportunity to combat extreme poverty in the period are recorded in which developing economies strong growth." She "timing the most important thing," adding that the economic recovery World goes very quickly thanks to strong growth in emerging economies and developing countries, "and said that" the Fund will strengthen استشاراته of developing countries on policies for natural resources and the provision of job opportunities and the development of the financial sector and support for goods and basic needs. "



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