ENDING GLOBAL POVERTY TASK FORCE

PURPOSE
Severe global poverty (less than $2 per day per capita) affects nearly one-half of the world population and is a scale problem second only to global warming.  Accordingly, the objective of this task force is to intensify direct poverty alleviation support and advocacy for federal legislation to expand and improve the efficiency of foreign aid for ending extreme global poverty.

ILLUSTRATIVE POVERTY PARAMETERS
Grinding poverty is the lot of half of the world’s population. Nearly three billion human beings subsist on less than $2 per day . . . more 

WHY SHOULD WE CARE?
Pragmatic Self-Interest, Altruistic/Idealistic/Scriptural Reasons, and . . . more

ELIMINATING EXTREME POVERTY IS FEASIBLE
Jeffrey Sachs has well documented that eliminating extreme poverty for the nearly 1.1 billion extreme poor ($1 per capita per day) is economically feasible and would enable the extreme poor to meet their basic needs for survival.[i] . . . more

IN THE NEWS
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Who we are and how to contact us
Bruno Walker, bruno.walker@cox.net, 703-620-2633 * Bob Young, robtcyoung@cox.net, 703-591-7815
or subscribe to our Task Force website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndingGlobalPoverty/

• Stephen C. Smith, Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works (New York: Palgrave; 2005)
  
  
• Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (New York: Penguin; 2005)
  
  
• Steven Radelet, “A Primer on Foreign Aid”, Center for Global Development, Working Paper Number 92, July 2006
  
  
• InterAction (http://www.interaction.org) is an association of many organizations committed to ending global poverty