Answer Detail: The first paragraph of the preamble to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development reads: “....We recognize that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.….”

Answer Detail: It was Albert Einstein who said this.

Answer Detail: A CEO from one of the world's top five global fashion brands has to work for just four days to earn what a garment worker in Bangladesh will earn in an entire lifetime, according to an Oxfam International report “Reward Work, Not Wealth”.
As per the report, upwards of 80% of the wealth generated in 2017 went to the richest 1% of the global population. That means that the poorest half of the world’s population - 3.7 billion - saw very little - if any - boost to their wealth (or lack thereof).

Answer Detail: According to the UN, globally, the number of people living in extreme poverty declined from 36% in 1990 to 10% in 2015. But the pace of change is decelerating and the COVID-19 crisis risks reversing decades of progress in the fight against poverty. New research published by the UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research warns that the economic fallout from the global pandemic could increase global poverty by as much as half a billion people, or 8% of the total human population. This would be the first time that poverty has increased globally in thirty years, since 1990.

Answer Detail: Gentrification refers to “the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, often displacing current inhabitants in the process.”

Answer Detail: Muhammad Yunus set up the Grameen Bank to provide microcredits, which was providing small loans to poor people who did not possess a collateral.

Answer Detail: One in four women in developing countries are unable to use contraceptives even though they would like to.