United Nations
A/RES/71/241
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 January 2016
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 23 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2016
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/71/467/Add.1)]
71/241. Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication
of Poverty (2008–2017)
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 70/218 of 22 December 2015 and all other resolutions
related to the eradication of poverty,
Recalling also the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1 adopted by Heads
of State and Government on the occasion of the Millennium Summit, as well as the
international commitment to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger,
Reaffirming its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled “Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which it adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly
for the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions —
economic, social and environmental — in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Taking into account the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including
the goals to eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, measured in 2015
as people living on less than 1.25 United States dollars a day, 2 and to end hunger,
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Resolution 55/2.
From 2008 to mid-2015, United Nations reports on the Millennium Development Goals used a poverty
line of 1.25 United States dollars a day, converted to national currencies at 2005 purchasing power parity
exchange rates. Since mid-2015, the poverty line has been updated to 1.90 United States dollars a day,
converted at 2011 purchasing power parity exchange rates.
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