World Poverty

Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: A, Gotland University, course: Multinational Finance, language: English, abstract: The Copenhagen Declaration describes absolute poverty as "e;a condition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information."e;The World Bank identifies "e;extreme poverty"e; as being people who live on less than USD $1 a day, and "e;poverty"e; as less than $2 a day.