Ending poverty in all its forms everywhere

The United Nations has had a development agenda for the world, and the development agenda that has been pursued up until 2015 has been the Millennium Development Goals which come to a close in 2015. To succeed the MDGs are the Sustainable Development Goals which have been adopted by the United Nations.
Targets
To "end poverty in all its forms everywhere" is the first sustainable development goal proposed by the Open Working Group as part of the UN's global Post-2015 Development Agenda. SDG number one has five targets.
SDG 1: Target Number 1.1
SDG Target Number 1.1 is to "by 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day." The Millennium Development Goals reduced the number of people living in extreme poverty globally from 1.9 billion to 836 million, thus over a billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty from 1990. In low income countries over half of the population lived in extreme poverty, and as a result of the MDGs this rate reduced to 14% in 2015. It affects their education, health, nutrition and security. It also negatively affects the emotional, spiritual and emotional development of children through the environment it creates. Women suffer from poverty because they are burdened with manual work because men are expected to provide food for the family. The poverty that women experience affects their health, which reduces their life expectancy to almost that of as men in developing countries. They said trying to alleviate poverty and achieving the other sustainable development goals will require about per annum for the next 15 years, which critics do not see as being feasible.
A report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) criticizes the efforts of the SDGs as not ambitious enough. Instead of aiming for an end to poverty by 2030, the report "An Ambitious Development Goal: Ending Hunger and Undernutrition by 2025" by Shenggen Fan and Paul Polman calls for a greater emphasis on eliminating hunger and undernutrition and achieving that in 5 years less, by 2025.

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