Millennium Development Goal 1: Hunger And Poverty Eradication In South Africa Analysis
Millennium development goal 1: Hunger and poverty eradication in South Africa
Since 1994, South Africa’s main key focus has been eradicating poverty in the year 2000 South Africa joined other nations for the development by signing the millennium declaration at the United Nation Millennium summit in 2000 (Oestergaard, Alkema and Lawn, 2013). The aim of this declaration was to work towards achieving a well-developed economy by the year 2015. South Africa also used the bill of rights that commits the country in reducing poverty and improving the standards of living through an enabling environment that is not harmful with adequate housing and access to good education in order to reduce poverty.
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According to the StatsSA (2013), the proportion of people living below one dollar a day has been achieved through the policy and strategies that were used to tackle this issue. The indicators that were used included the poverty gap, share of poorest quintile and proportion of the population below one dollar a day.
In 2002, the country report (2007) showed a strong overall income growth this resulted in an increase in income of the poor including the expansion of social grants. The depth of this poverty was measured with a poverty line of R3 000 per annum and it showed the strong improvement, bringing the poor very close to the poverty line. However, this has resulted in an increase in inequality, whereby the improvement of income for the poor has not matched that of the rich. Therefore in South Africa we have poverty decreasing but inequality increasing.
Target 2: halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
According to the country report (2013) the percentage of people who reported on experiencing hunger were 29.9% in 2002 and 2011 there was an enormous decrease to 12.9%. This means the target 2 of halving the people who suffer from hunger has been achieved. The report also indicate the percentage of children living under malnutrition, which has a slight change from 10.2% in 2005 to 8,3% in 2008 and it is likely to be …show more content…
Looking at the estimates of poverty and inequality, about 11% of people living on less than one dollar a day which was R87 a day and 34% were living on less than R187 a day in the year 2000. From that population 20% of the poor accounted for 2.8% of total expenditure while the rich accounted for 64.5% of all expenditure. The Gini coefficient at that time was at 0.59 excluding social transfers and decreased to 0.35 when including social transfers. The introduction of developmental programmes contributed to the improved profile of South
Since 1994, South Africa’s main key focus has been eradicating poverty in the year 2000 South Africa joined other nations for the development by signing the millennium declaration at the United Nation Millennium summit in 2000 (Oestergaard, Alkema and Lawn, 2013). The aim of this declaration was to work towards achieving a well-developed economy by the year 2015. South Africa also used the bill of rights that commits the country in reducing poverty and improving the standards of living through an enabling environment that is not harmful with adequate housing and access to good education in order to reduce poverty.
The policies and strategies to reduce hunger and poverty …show more content…
According to the StatsSA (2013), the proportion of people living below one dollar a day has been achieved through the policy and strategies that were used to tackle this issue. The indicators that were used included the poverty gap, share of poorest quintile and proportion of the population below one dollar a day.
In 2002, the country report (2007) showed a strong overall income growth this resulted in an increase in income of the poor including the expansion of social grants. The depth of this poverty was measured with a poverty line of R3 000 per annum and it showed the strong improvement, bringing the poor very close to the poverty line. However, this has resulted in an increase in inequality, whereby the improvement of income for the poor has not matched that of the rich. Therefore in South Africa we have poverty decreasing but inequality increasing.
Target 2: halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
According to the country report (2013) the percentage of people who reported on experiencing hunger were 29.9% in 2002 and 2011 there was an enormous decrease to 12.9%. This means the target 2 of halving the people who suffer from hunger has been achieved. The report also indicate the percentage of children living under malnutrition, which has a slight change from 10.2% in 2005 to 8,3% in 2008 and it is likely to be …show more content…
Looking at the estimates of poverty and inequality, about 11% of people living on less than one dollar a day which was R87 a day and 34% were living on less than R187 a day in the year 2000. From that population 20% of the poor accounted for 2.8% of total expenditure while the rich accounted for 64.5% of all expenditure. The Gini coefficient at that time was at 0.59 excluding social transfers and decreased to 0.35 when including social transfers. The introduction of developmental programmes contributed to the improved profile of South