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A Call for Action to finance social protection

Joint Statement of USP2030 and Olivier De Schutter, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights – for FfD4

Joint-Statement-DIGITAL.pdf

Confession of a (former) true believer in poverty targeting

The confession, as such, is important, but even more important is the lesson of how people fall into the trap of mainstream literature.

Confessions of a [former] true believer in poverty targeting – Development Pathways

Poverty Dynamics

Progress in poverty reduction, a first step towards eradication, is fragile …

UN DESA Policy Brief No. 160: The Dynamics of Poverty – Creating Resilience to Sustain Progress | UN DESA Publications

More poor, yet again

Many low-income countries (LICs) continue to slip further behind the rest of the world. Meanwhile, people in extreme poverty have been increasing again after decades of decline.

More Poverty for the Poor | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)

Poverty Inc.

How helping the poor becamebig business

The Rise of Poverty Inc. – The Atlantic

EU-Directive on Minimum Income Needed

As the European elections loom, legislation addressing the root causes of poverty must move to the top of the agenda.

Fighting poverty: directive on minimum income needed (socialeurope.eu)

Onerous Debt making the Poorest Poorer

Contractionary economic trends since 2008 and ‘geopolitical’ conflicts subverting international cooperation have worsened world conditions, especially in the poorest countries, mainly in Africa, leaving their poor worse off.
Conditions and prospects are so bad that two well-known globalisation cheerleaders have appealed to rich nations for urgent action. Former IMF Deputy Managing Director and World Bank Senior Vice-President, Professor Anne Krueger and influential Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf warn ominously of the dire consequences of inaction.

Article by Jomo Kwame Sundaram

More Poverty, more Inequality…

Look at the charts of the World Bank: 2023 was noty positive at all. More poverty, more inequality, ‘development work more complicated’…

2023 in Nine Charts: A Growing Inequality (worldbank.org)

Child Poverty in the midst of Wealth

UNICEF Innocenti’s Report Card 18, out today, presents the most up-to-date, comparable picture of poverty affecting children in OECD and EU countries. It finds that, despite overall decreases in poverty by nearly 8 per cent across 40 countries between 2014 and 2021, there were still over 69 million children living in poverty by the end of 2021.

Read the report

Poverty and the cost-of-living crisis

Low wages are keeping many workers trapped in poverty across the globe.

What a ‘living wage’ really means in today’s cost-of-living crisis – Future of social democracy | IPS Journal (ips-journal.eu)

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