Creating employment and income generating opportunities for women and enhancing their access to social protection is helping reduce their poverty and vulnerability. The labor force participation of rural women is only 36.4% compared to 83.3% of men.
Progress has also been limited in other regions, such as South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, which account for 80 percent of the people living in extreme poverty. Women are disproportionately affected they are more likely to live in poverty due to unequal access to paid work, education and property. Rapid economic growth in countries like China and India has lifted millions out of poverty, but progress has been uneven. Globally, more than 800 million people are still living on less than $1.25 a day many lack access to adequate food, clean drinking water and sanitation. While the number of people living in extreme poverty has dropped by more than half – from 1.9 billion in 1990, to 836 million in 2015 – too many people are still struggling to meet the most basic human needs.
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