UN Reports Progress on Anti-Poverty Goals
The United Nations is reporting signs of some progress in meeting global anti-poverty goals set in 2000. But a top U.N. official says poverty reduction efforts in the poorest parts of the world face "staggering" obstacles, with conditions in some impoverished regions actually worsening. U.N. Undersecretary General Jose Antonio Ocampo's comments today (Monday) in Geneva coincided with the release of a U.N. progress report.
While noting decreases in extreme poverty across much of the world, the report says 140-milllion more people in sub-Saharan Africa have joined the ranks of those living on a dollar a day or less. The eight so-called Millennium Development goals, set forth in 2000, target health, poverty and environmental issues, and include halving by 2015 the number of people living in abject poverty. The Millennium project also targets infectious diseases, including AIDS and malaria.
根據(jù)聯(lián)合國的報告,2000年設定的反貧困全球目標已經有取得一些進展的跡象。但是,聯(lián)合國的一名高級官員說,減少貧困的努力在世界最貧窮的地區(qū)面臨巨大障礙,一些貧困地區(qū)的局勢甚至在惡化。在聯(lián)合國副秘書長奧坎波星期一發(fā)表上述評論的同時,聯(lián)合國公布了這個進展報告。
報告指出,盡管全世界大部份地區(qū)的極端貧困在減少,但是非洲撒哈拉以南地區(qū)每天生活費只有一美元或者一美元以下的人增加了1億4千萬。2000年,聯(lián)合國設定的八個所謂千年發(fā)展目標涉及健康、貧困、環(huán)境問題,還包括到2015年將生活在赤貧狀態(tài)的人口數(shù)目減半。千年發(fā)展目標還包括打擊愛滋病和瘧疾在內的各種傳染病。
The United Nations is reporting signs of some progress in meeting global anti-poverty goals set in 2000. But a top U.N. official says poverty reduction efforts in the poorest parts of the world face "staggering" obstacles, with conditions in some impoverished regions actually worsening. U.N. Undersecretary General Jose Antonio Ocampo's comments today (Monday) in Geneva coincided with the release of a U.N. progress report.
While noting decreases in extreme poverty across much of the world, the report says 140-milllion more people in sub-Saharan Africa have joined the ranks of those living on a dollar a day or less. The eight so-called Millennium Development goals, set forth in 2000, target health, poverty and environmental issues, and include halving by 2015 the number of people living in abject poverty. The Millennium project also targets infectious diseases, including AIDS and malaria.
根據(jù)聯(lián)合國的報告,2000年設定的反貧困全球目標已經有取得一些進展的跡象。但是,聯(lián)合國的一名高級官員說,減少貧困的努力在世界最貧窮的地區(qū)面臨巨大障礙,一些貧困地區(qū)的局勢甚至在惡化。在聯(lián)合國副秘書長奧坎波星期一發(fā)表上述評論的同時,聯(lián)合國公布了這個進展報告。
報告指出,盡管全世界大部份地區(qū)的極端貧困在減少,但是非洲撒哈拉以南地區(qū)每天生活費只有一美元或者一美元以下的人增加了1億4千萬。2000年,聯(lián)合國設定的八個所謂千年發(fā)展目標涉及健康、貧困、環(huán)境問題,還包括到2015年將生活在赤貧狀態(tài)的人口數(shù)目減半。千年發(fā)展目標還包括打擊愛滋病和瘧疾在內的各種傳染病。