CINA

· An estimated 600m children live in absolute poverty. Every year more than 10 million children die of hunger and preventable diseases.

· Over 1 billion people live on less than 70p a day with nearly half the world's population - 2.8 billion - surviving on less than twice that amount.

· Income per person in the poorest countries in Africa has fallen by a quarter in the past 20 years.

· More than half a million women die in pregnancy and childbirth every year - one death a minute.

· Spread over 10 years the cost to the UK taxpayer of cancelling £1.3bn debt is £171m a year or £2.85 per UK citizen - the price of a pint of beer.

· The United Nations believes that unfair trade rules deny poor countries more than £400 billion every year. Less than 0.01 per cent of this could save the sight of 30m people.

· International trade is worth almost £6m a minute with 70 per cent of this controlled by multinational companies.