Publication Working Paper 5: Poverty and corruption: About poorer and richer ways of life Read more about Working Paper 5: Poverty and corruption: About poorer and richer ways of life The Millennium Development Goals were adopted by the global community under the aegis of the UN in 2000. The first of these goals aims at halving absolute poverty of the about 1.1 billion people who live on less than 1 US dollar a day.