the top and the bottom

- More than 1.2 billion people - one in every five on Earth - survive on less than $1 a day
- The top 1% of the world’s richest people earn as much as the poorest 57%
- During the 1990s, government development assistance dropped from 0.33% to 0.22% of donor countries’ gross national income. The target is 0.7%
- Of the 49 least developed countries, 31 receive less aid today than they did in 1990.
- The annual dairy subsidy in the EU amounts to $913 per cow per year; EU’s aid to Africa is $8 per African per year