The Taiwan dream Given that poverty has become a growing social cancer both in advanced nations and in Third World countries, the United Nations declared 1996 the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty and pledged that by 2015 the number of people subsisting on less than US $ 1 a day, which stood at 1.2 billion, would be reduced by half.
台灣之夢有鑑於貧窮已成為社會發展之癌，不論先進國家或第三世界國家，都難逃貧窮蔓延之苦，聯合國於是訂一九九六為「消除貧窮年」，誓言要在二○一五年，將全球十二億、每日生活費低於一美元的貧困人口減少一半。