Libya: UN scales up support to victims of deadly floods
Over 330 million children worldwide living in extreme poverty: UNICEF, World Bank
One in every six children is forced to survive on less than $2.15 a day, according to a new report from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank released on Wednesday.
Although the global cost-of-living crisis will be an obstacle to eradicating poverty by 2030, countries can still make significant progress towards this Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), UN-appointed human rights expert Olivier de Schutter has said.
Low-cost initiatives such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets and child de-worming programmes are proof that the world can take effective action to reduce poverty, a Nobel Prize-winning economist has said, as the world marks the International Day dedicated to its eradication.
Michael Kremer, alongside fellow professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, is the recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics, for their research in fighting poverty.
The World Bank has lowered its expectations of global economic growth for this year in a new report. It says that, although the picture for poorer countries is expected to stabilize in 2020, economic momentum remains weak.
A grassroots blitz to educate everyone on the planet about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within one week will kick off on 25 September when the SDGs are adopted at the UN.
That’s according to English filmmaker Richard Curtis, the creator of “Project Everyone” – which aims to involve the world’s 7 billion people in the global targets to end extreme poverty and tackle climate change over the next 15 years.
