XLRI Students' Blog on Corporate Sustainability

“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.” — Nelson Mandela Eliminating poverty in all its forms remains one of the greatest challenges of humanity. Even though the number of people living in acute poverty all around the globe has dropped by more than 60% over the last three decades, there are still a huge number of people living without a roof over their heads and struggling to meet the basic human needs of food, clean drinking water and sanitation. There are more than 730 million people living in extreme poverty ( less than US$ 1.9 per day ), that is every one in ten people barely have enough to meet their   basic daily needs. Now, the situation could become worse, due to the crisis from COVID-19 which is driving millions of people into poverty. To make it worse, extreme poverty is a gender issue: for every 100 males between the ages of 25-34 living in extreme poverty worldwid...

WHERE THE POOR HAVE NO NAME Authored by: Abhijith A, Kriti Ahuja, Nikita Gambhir, Randhir Singh, Sayan Sen, Simran Kathuria Group 9, Section C, PGDM (BM) 2019-21 Batch The Sustainable Development Goal-1 of “No Poverty” is a direct follow-up to the prior concluded Goal-1 of the Millennium Development Goal to “Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger”. The goal targets to eradicate poverty by ensuring rights to – economic resources, basic services, ownership and control over land, inheritance, natural resources, new technology and financial services. Further, this goal to eradicate poverty gains tremendous traction and importance in the contemporary times due to the clearly visible and destructive effects of climate change. According to Mercy Corps, 3 out of every 4 people who are in poverty, rely on agriculture and natural resources to survive. 2.5 billion small holder farmers, herders and fishery workers depend on climate and natural resources for food and income. T...