Did you know that 35% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty in 1990? In 2013 this number had fallen to an estimated 766 million people, or 10.7% of the world’s population. However, even if the number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen in most countries, it has risen in many Sub Saharan African countries despite the region’s economic growth. Join the conversation from Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 11 &12 at Ending Poverty: The Road to 2030, organized in partnership with @joinundes and @UNDP, to discuss how #ItsPossible to #EndPoverty. http://wrld.bg/Hhe830bqZM1
Ending Poverty: The Road to 2030
A two-day preparatory conference from May 11-12 in Copenhagen that will take a look at the progress made on SDG 1, which calls for ending extreme poverty by 2030