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Chap9 Lec Poverty
Chap9 Lec Poverty
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3. Decline in child malnutrition
The rate of stunting at the national level
1985/86 69 %
1996 53 %
2007 43 %
2011 41 %
– Improvement in acute nutritional
deficiencies such as blindness.
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• Reduction in human poverty:
– Bangladesh shows fastest growing HDI
in the south East Asia.
– BD achieves improvement in basic and
elementary education.
• Examples: adult literacy rate, reduction in
gender bias education, school enrolment
rate.
– Regional bias education existed, quality
education lacking.
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What is the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development?
• At the Sustainable Development Summit on 25
September, 2015, UN Member States adopted the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, that
includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs).