A child cooks outside her home in Kisumu. Extreme poverty is a condition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including but not limited to food security, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends both on income and societal access to services.
Extreme poverty is a condition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including but not limited to food security, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends both on income and societal access to services.
In September 2000, leaders at the Millennium Summit in New York under the aegis of the United Nations Millennium Project observed the close correlation between economic growth and reduction of poverty in poor countries and governments and leaders to indiscriminately target extreme poverty.
