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Eradicate poverty for
all people everywhere,
currently measured as
people living on
less than $1.25 a day
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There are persistent disparities in the “non-income” dimensions of
development between the poor and the non-poor and between the B40 and
the rest of the population (Figure 4). The absolute deprivations and inequalities
of opportunity of the poor and the B40 in these non-incorne dimensions tend
to transmit poverty across generations and erode the pace and sustainability
of shared prosperity. Be fi lin
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Poverty and prosperity are both multidimensional concepts. Central aspects of
both are income deprivations that restrict an individual's ability to consume
certain basic goods, such as lack of access to education, health, housing,
employment, personal security, and more. Clearly, as the GMR shows, the
world has made significant progress in many of these non-income dimensions
over the period of the expiring Millennium Development Goals. But significant
work remains. Close to one-fifth of all children under five remain
undernourished, and some 860 million people continue to live in slums. Access
to primary school education and literacy rates have improved, yet the quality of
education remains a concern. Moreover, while the tide has turned on the
incidence of major deadly diseases, a high number of preventable deaths
persistAl can help to identify the region's most in need of help. Through improving farming lands and
agriculture, increasing education and helping inhabitants learning new skills to support
commurities, Al can also help with aid distribution in poorer and war-torn areas, or where
natural disasters have caused devastation.
Identifying poverty-stricken regions is a key component in being able to tackle poverty.
Satellite imagery is helping researchers do just this. An abundance of images taken by
satellites can lend a hand to identifying global activities that reflect poor and rich regions. For
instance, areas with a high density of light at night are typically wealthier than those in
darkness. This is because those in darkness have little or no access to electricity over
nighttime periods.
Feeding an algorithm with both night and day satellite images of Rwanda, Nigeria, Uganda,
Malawi and Tanzania, they were able to identify signifiers in the daytime pictures. Combining
both image sets helped the computer predict poverty in these regions. This was then
compared with survey data obtained from households within these regions. This led Burke
and his team to be able to predict poverty with an 81-99% accuracy. Al, in this case, can help
with the identification of areas most in need of aid. It can also help organisations and aid
workers on the ground measure how effective their efforts are in combating poverty.