Equity

Social equity is one of the principal values underlying sustainable development. Equity involves the degree of fairness and inclusiveness with which resources are distributed, opportunities afforded and decisions made. It includes the provision of comparable opportunities of employment and social services including education, health and justice. Significant issues related to the achievement of social equity include poverty alleviation, employment and income distribution; gender, ethnic and age inclusiveness; access to financial and natural resources; and intergenerational opportunity. Impoverished people may feel powerless and isolated, and face pervasive and systematic problems related to insecure livelihoods, malnutrition and poor health, illiteracy, civil insecurity linked to violence and strife and corruption. The concentration of the rural poor on marginal land leads to resource over-exploitation and land degradation. Source: United Nations

Migration (Internal & External)

Poverty

The most important purpose of a poverty measure is to enable poverty comparisons. These are required for an overall assessment of an area’s progress in poverty alleviation and/or the evaluation of specific policies or projects.

Measures of poverty are a very significant consideration of sustainable development. The eradication of poverty remains a major challenge for policy decision makers. Furthermore, an integrative viewpoint, which simultaneously takes account of development issues, resource use and environmental quality and human welfare must be taken if sustainable progress is to be achieved.

The percent of population living below the poverty line captures the prevalence of poverty by measuring the proportion of population for whom consumption (or any other suitable measure of living standard) is below the poverty line. An increase in this indicator implies a worsening of the poverty situation with a greater proportion of the population falling below the poverty line. Source: United Nations

Retirement Rates