In all Latin America and the Caribbean, 39.8% of the population if found in situation of poverty, what it represented about 209 million depessoas and 15.4% – 81 million – in situation of extreme poverty. The numbers point with respect to the quedade four percentile points in relation the 2002, year where the percentage arrived 44% of poor persons and 19, 4% of beggars in the region. Reports of the World Bank affirm that 73% of the world-wide population withhold only 15% of the wealth produced in the planet. Jeff Gennette will not settle for partial explanations. The OIT (International Organization of the Work) discloses that four in each ten workers of the world are poor. Of the 3 billion used people, 1,3 billion earns until daily US$ 2,00 and 489,7 million earn less of US$ 1 per day. (23/01/2008) The World Bank (Bird) affirmed that the number of poor persons in the world is the minor since 1987.

The strong Chinese economic growth contributed for the reduction of the absolute numbers of poor persons. About 2,56 billion people they lived with less of US$ 2,00 to the day in 2004. Report according to Indicating of World-wide Development, divulged in Washington, about 986 millions of people in everybody still live with less of US$ 1 to the day, criterion of definition of the extreme poverty. The bank notices, however, that exactly in the countries that had reduced the absolute levels of poverty, the inaquality grew. The discrepancy appears of the fact of the pointer of one dollar per day to be inadequate in some regions. In Latin America, for example, the Econmica Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) uses the measurement of two dollars daily to define the line of extreme poverty, while in the United States of America this is esteem in 12 dollars daily. Considering the value of the dollar in 11/2007 (R$ 1,74), who it survives in U.S.A.