World poverty
Poverty affects people around the world. Entire nations are rarely poor but people within nations are. A rich country such as the UK has many people living poverty. A country we tend to think of as âpoorâ such as Tanzania will have many rich people.
The United Nations (UN) is trying to tackle poverty. In the year 2000, they set up eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to fight poverty and improve life in poorer countries. These were replaced in 2016 by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These have actions for all countries in the world and there is an aim to end all forms of poverty and hunger by 2030.
Sustainable Development Goal 1 aims to end poverty:
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Some progress is being made thanks to the work done by the agencies of the UN, aid by individual countries, debt relief by the major powers and economic growth in Africa. However, in 2021, the UN said that countries are not on track and will miss the 2030 deadline.