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In 2005, global poverty, though hardly a new issue, emerged as a key concern for citizens, corporate leaders, and politicians around the world. A Gallup poll of 68 countries conducted in May and June of 2005 named poverty and the gap between rich and poor as the top concern of 26 percent of world citizens, clearly overtaking other newsworthy issues such as terrorism (12 percent), unemployment (9 percent), or war and conflicts (8 percent) (Leger Marketing 2006). This emerging consensus about the importance of global poverty had been building through various policy objectives in the late 1990s culminating in the United Nations Millennium Declaration in 2000, which named “Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger” as the first of eight Millennium Development Goals (United Nations 2001) and gave the year 2015 as a specific target.
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Milner, M.W. (2012). The Discursive Construction of Global Poverty: Social Justice in Media Discourse. In: Korostelina, K.V. (eds) Forming a Culture of Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137105110_7
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