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http://san.beck.org/BFA2-AlleviatingPoverty.html


More than half of humanity is suffering in poverty on less than two dollars per day, and more than 1,300,000,000 people are in extreme poverty living on less than one dollar per day. Each year six million children die of malnutrition; 2.2 million children die because they are not immunized; and 1.4 million children die because they do not have safe drinking water or adequate sanitation. The number of people lacking access to clean water is 1.3 billion. Two billion people do not have electricity, and 2.6 billion lack basic sanitation.

At the same time that this ghastly poverty is increasing in the developing world, the wealthy are becoming even richer. The gap between the richest and poorest nations has gone from 3-1 in 1820 to 11-1 in 1913 to 44-1 in 1973 and to 74-1 in 1992. The combined wealth of the world's 7.1 million millionaires is $27 trillion, which is equal to the total annual income of every person on the Earth. By 2005 the world had 691 billionaires with a combined wealth of $2.2 trillion, which is more than twice as much as the gross domestic products (GDP) of all the nations in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1960 Africa was a net exporter of food, but now the continent of Africa imports one third of its grain. More than forty percent of Africans do not have enough food. The twenty percent of the population in the world's developed nations are consuming 86% of the world's goods.