No Poverty

In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.

[New] Although digitization and deglobalization are decreasing agricultural employment in the developing world, there are opportunities to boost agricultural productivity and off-farm employment, and enable the agri-food system to continue creating good jobs and reducing poverty.
[New] The next 4 years will be crucial to the prospects of poverty reduction in the developing world, and it remains to be seen how the leadership there will react to the barrage of anti-fossil darts from the West.
[New] The World Bank confirms that the AfCFTA is a major opportunity for Africa to lift 30 million people out of extreme poverty.
[New] Securing equal access to land and improving tenure security for older women will contribute to reducing poverty and hunger in many Asian and African countries.
[New] According to the European Commission, 85% of Romani children are at risk of poverty compared to 20% of children in the general population and 62% of Romani youth are not in education, employment or training compared to 10% of youth in the general population.
[New] The unpredictable nature of the agricultural sector will continue to threaten many Indian farmers' way of life and push them further into poverty and precariousness.
[New] Lower barriers to immigration could lead to migration playing a bigger role in future reductions of extreme poverty and global inequality.
[New] President Biden says his proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour will lift many low-wage workers out of poverty, but some businesses and economists warn it could cost jobs as the U.S. recovers from pandemic layoffs.
[New] While research has demonstrated that large-scale farming in Cameroon and other African countries increases food insecurity, poverty, and underdevelopment, relegating smallholders to marginal lands exacerbates their vulnerability.
[New] The vicious cycle of low productivity, poverty, and food insecurity in Cameroon can be linked to the neglect of small-scale farmers amidst climate change and other vulnerabilities.
[New] As a steadfast member of developing countries, China will further deepen South-South cooperation, and contribute to the endeavor of developing countries to eradicate poverty, ease debt burden, and achieve more growth.
[New] Fertilization of agricultural land is consistent with the United Nations sustainable development goals that aim to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty by 2030 because the fertilizer nutrients are required to increase global food production.
COVID-19 could push up to 40 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa into extreme poverty, seriously eroding the progress that African countries have made to reduce deprivation during the past two decades.
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 could deliver pay raises for 27 million workers and lift 900,000 Americans above the poverty threshold.
Increasing the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2025 would cut employment by 1.4 million but would lift roughly 900,000 Americans out of poverty.
The Rwandan economy has fallen into its first recession due to the covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and could potentially compromise years of gains in poverty reduction.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a new study that states raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would give raises to 27 million workers and lift 900,000 out of poverty while also causing 1.4 million Americans to lose their jobs over the next four years.
While the US and other G7 economies are estimated to recover fairly quickly, thanks in large part to a fast and massive vaccine rollout, emerging economies could take years to get back to pre-pandemic levels.
Nigeria struggles with a recession with the threat of higher unemployment and poverty rates exacerbated by the public health threat from COVID-19.
Child poverty rates in Europe are not only higher than we would expect from the level of development of the European Union but also stand systematically higher than total poverty rates.
In Europe, 22.2 million children - almost one in four - are at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
In Latin America, COVID-19's death toll exceeds 570,000, and its economic consequences threaten to force tens of millions of people into poverty.

Last updated: 21 February 2021

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