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WG5-PROFFERED PAPER (RAMKISSOON) Pugwash meeting no. 275 52nd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs Science Sustainability Security University of California San Diego La Jolla, California, 10-14 August 2002. THE CHALLENGE OF THE 21ST CENTURY Harold Ramkissoon. Addressing the problem of widespread poverty will, in my view, be the major challenge of the 21st Century. Across the globe we are witnessing unacceptable levels of deprivation in people’s lives and what has been described as the “savage inequalities” between the North and the South. According to the 2001 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT UNDP Report, of the 4.6 billion people living in the developing countries 2.8 billion (over 60%) live on less than $2 a day and around 1.2 billion people live on less than $1 a day. Nearly 2.4 billion lack access to basic sanitation, one billion lack access to improved water sources and there are approximately one billion that are illiterate. Each year about 11 million (the population of Hungary) children under age 5 die from preventable causes. The annual high income of the industrial nations is $20,570 per capita compared with the low income of the developing countries of $350. Fifteen percent of the world’s population enjoys more then 79% of the world’s income.
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