Global poverty, hunger, death, and disease

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to address the global dimensions of poverty, hunger, death, and disease.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors assemble the most recently available data on these four human scourges from reliable international sources.

Findings

Reducing the higher incidence of poverty, hunger, death, and disease in sub‐Saharan African countries depends critically on the extension of four revolutions – biological, intellectual, political, and scientific‐technological.

Originality/value

The paper selects and interprets these data from the perspectives of economics and paediatrics.

Citation

O'Boyle, E. and O'Boyle, M. (2012), "Global poverty, hunger, death, and disease", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 39 No. 1/2, pp. 4-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068291211188848