Income is not the only measure of poverty,nor is it the only one for which the recent numbers are grim.Over three-quarters of a billion of the world's people,many of them children,are malnourished.Where as the rich countries have an average of 3.7 physicians per 1,000 population,the low-income countries have just 0.4 per 1,000.Maternal mortality in childbirth in many low-income African countries is more than 100 times higher than in the high-income countries of Europe.Vast number of people also struggle to survice in squalid,depressing living conditions,where they lack both opportunity to