Poverty and Innovation

More than 3 billion people – around half of the world – struggle to survive on less than $2.50 per day.  Nearly 1 billion live on less than $1 per day.  In New York in 2000, 189 heads of state signed the United Nations Millennium Declaration and committed, among other goals, to halve by the year 2015 the proportion of the world’s people whose income is less than one dollar a day.  Innovation plays an important role in development and in providing tools to lift people out of poverty.