1. What are the causes of extreme poverty, and what policies have been most effective for improving the lives of the poorest of the poor?
Sadiq Farouk Labaran

2. What is Extreme Poverty?
The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than 1.25 US dollars (or £1) per day.

3. Africa

4. Why is Africa poor? Desertification Civil War
Corruption & Poor Leadership
HIV/AIDS
Other Diseases

5. Desertification
Somalia
Mali
Ethiopia

6. War
Angola
Uganda
Sierra leone
Congo
Sudan
Somalia

7. Corruption & Poor leadership
Nigeria

8. HIV/AIDS
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Botswana
Lesotho
South Africa
Namibia

9. Diseases
Malaria
Sleeping sickness
Typhoid
Cholera

10. U.N
Tools
Fertilizers
Seeds
Silos
Knowledge
A decent road to market.

11. Millennium Development Goals
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Deadline 2015

12. The New Partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) & (AU)
NEPAD and the AU aim to tackle HIV/AIDS, reduce poverty and sustain long-term economic growth. It’s committed to governance and promoting peace and security.

13. Progress Mozambique (Reduced poverty from 70% to 55%)
Kenya (Introduced free primary education)
Tanzania (1000 new schools have been built and 18,000 teachers recruited)
Uganda (Reduced HIV from 20% to around 6.5%)

14. References John Adam, 2010. “Why is Africa so poor?”
Smith Jennifer, “ Facts on poverty in Africa”
“Poverty in Africa: diseases: malaria: Facts - child poverty in Africa”
Madhurima Ganguly, “Poverty in Africa”

15. QUESTIONS???

16. THE END
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