Poverty Is World’s Biggest Problem

Poverty is the most serious problem facing the world, match to a major worldwide poll out Sunday which purge the issue well ahead of climate change, terrorism and war. Overall, 71 per penny of people named extreme poverty as the biggest global issue, compared to 64pc who cited the environment or pollution and 63pc the rising cost of food and energy.Terrorism, human rights and the spread of unsoundness were singled out by 59pc, climate change and the state of the world sparing by 58pc and war by 57pc. Even if the global recession has kept economic problems top of peoples minds this year, extreme poverty is clearly viewed as the worlds most serious global problem, verbalise Sam Mountford, research director for GlobeScan, which conducted the poll for the BBC World Service. But with galore(postnominal) other global problems seen as very serious, this represents a daunting agenda for institutions like the UN and G20 to address. Results varied between nations.People in India and P akistan rated terrorism as their top concern and it was also in the top three in Britain, Indonesia and Spain, which have suffered major attacks in recent years. Japan was the only solid ground to view climate change as the most serious issue, date China ranked it second and the US ninth. More than 25,000 people in 23 countries were interviewed face-to-face, online or over the telephone for the poll, which was conducted between June and October last year.