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Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Develop a global partnership for development

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger


TARGETS
INDICATORS
1. Halve between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day.

  • Proportion of population below $1 (PPP) per day
  • Poverty gap ratio (incidence x depth of poverty)
  • Share of poorest quintile in national consumption
2. Halve between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
  • Prevalence of underweight children under five years of age
  • Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption


See ADB's Key Indicators 2003 for the most recent status of this goal in ADB's developing member countries.

For information on ADB's work on poverty reduction visit the poverty reduction and microfinance websites.
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