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Inequality and Climate Change - The Double Threat to Life on Earth

Posted Sep 22, 2019 | by UNDP

The twin threats of climate change and rising inequality are intertwined and challenging obstacles for humans. The effects of climate change will impact mostly the poor who have done the least to heat the planet. In this illustrated article, the UNDP argues that although innovation has exploded, and poverty has declined, the gap between the... Read More

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The Global Financial Architecture and the International Debt Crisis: An Urgent Call for Reform

Posted on Jun 12, 2023 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by Bretton Woods Project

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), home to 40 per cent of the world’s poorest, are either experiencing debt distress or are at high risk of doing so. Despite the adverse implications... Read More

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The Time Is Now: We Must Step Up Support for the Poorest Countries

Posted on Apr 05, 2023 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by International Monetary Fund

The challenges facing low-income countries have grown immensely in recent years, which have suffered both from the pandemic and a succession of economic shocks. Today they face additional... Read More

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Fertility and the Education of African Parents and Children

Posted on Sep 27, 2022 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by National Bureau of Economic Research

Sub-Saharan Africa is the only UN region with a total fertility rate (TFR) of more than four children per woman, the result of later and slower fertility decline. Educational progress here has... Read More

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Will Transforming the Global Financial Architecture deliver for People living in Poverty?

Posted on May 16, 2023 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by Development Initiatives

Despite the 2030 Agenda being promoted as the means of eradicating poverty and inequality by 2030, there is a growing realisation that this is practically impossible as the funding gap to deliver... Read More

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Does Inflation hit the Poor hardest Everywhere?

Posted on Dec 20, 2022 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by Bruegel

Low-income households suffer most from high inflation, but in some European Union countries the inflation burden is felt more equally than others. Read More

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Addressing the Cost-of-living Crisis in Developing Countries: Poverty and Vulnerability Projections and Policy Responses

Posted on Jul 16, 2022 | in category: Reducing poverty and improving equity | by UNDP

Among many other effects of the war in Ukraine, supply chain disruptions and price spikes in key commodities have pushed the world towards a dangerous inflationary surge. This will have immediate... Read More