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The global economy refers to the interconnected

worldwide economic activities that take place
between multiple countries. These economic activities
can have either a positive or negative impact on the
countries involved.
The United Nations(UN) tried to address the different problems in the world.
Their efforts were guided by the eight Millennium Development Goals, which
they created in 1990’s. Among these eight goals, the eradication of extreme
poverty and hunger ranked as the first. The other seven goals include:
achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and
women empowerment, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health,
combating diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria, ensuring environmental
sustainability, and having a global partnership for development(United
Nations,2015) The UN tried to achieve them by year 2015

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 According to UN, extreme poverty is a condition characterized by
severe deprivation of basic human needs including food, safe drinking
water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education, and information

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The UN(2015) reported that 836 million people still live in extreme
poverty but that is down from 1.9 billion,so there is success or at
least a lot of progress. However, climate change has to be
considered since it is a threat to these improvements in global
poverty.

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Most people who have been lifted out of extreme poverty are still
poor and being poor comes with serious problems, from disease
to lack of water. Income inequality is rampant and one in seven
people still live without electricity.

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 So why is extreme poverty falling?

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The answers to this is really complicated. A set of factors like better
access to education,humanitarian aid, and the policies of international
organizations like UN have mad a difference. However, the greatest
contributor is economic globalization. The world’s economies have
become more interconnected and free trade has driven the growth of
many developing economies

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