What You Can Do to Alleviate Poverty
Shira Babow
This picture lists several ways in which you can help to alleviate global poverty.
Shira Babow
This picture lists several ways in which you can help to alleviate global poverty.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Poverty Environment Partnership
This picture gives the reader basic information about two organizations working to bring together members of the private, public, and volunteer sectors (as well as various existing organizatons) in order to create international development strategies and to solve problems.
Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture, International Water Management Institute
This picture gives the reader some basic information about two organizations working to ensure global environmental sustainability.
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Doctors Without Borders
This picture gives the reader some basic information about two organizations working to prevent and treat global infectious diseases in the developing world.
World Economic Forum
This graph shows the relationship between per capita GDP of individual countries (or the average amount earned per person per year) and the Global Gender Gap Index Score (or the amount of money a woman makes for every dollar earned by a man with the same job). There is a clear, positive correlation between per capita GDP and the Gender Gap Index Score.
UNESCO Institute of Statistics
This combined image shows the number of years children and young adults attend school. Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, and North Africa are the three most education-deficient regions as shown on the map. The bottom graph depicts the distribution of years spent in school, showing the number of years spent in pre-school, grammar/secondary school, and post-secondary school by region.
This chart shows both global and regional literacy rates over a period of twenty years (1985-2005). While overall global levels have risen dramatically, education for women and in the least developed countries continues to lag.
This chart shows the major causes of death of children (5 years and under) and infants using data from 2000 to 2003. These diseases are mostly preventable or treatable, demonstrating the importance of prenatal care, access to healthcare, and female health education.
CIA World Factbook 2008
Shows the percent of the population living in poverty (less than 1.25 USD per day) by country.
This image shows the root causes of the poverty cycle.