On MDG 1, which is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, the department's target was to achieve full and productive employment and decent work and to halve the proportion of people whose income was less than 1 dollar per day. Of the 11,3% of people who were living below 1dollar per day in 2000, there had been a reduction by 5% in 2006. The poverty gap was 3,2% in 2000. This gap had since been reduced to 1,1%.