Will economic growth be sufficient to end global poverty?: New projections of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Arief Anshory Yusuf, Zuzy Anna, Ahmad Komarulzaman and Andy Sumner

No wp-2023-123, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on economic growth forecasts, take into account recent global shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the inflation shock. Our findings indicate that economic growth alone will not be sufficient to end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance.

Keywords: Poverty; Growth; Nutrition; Health; Inequality; SDGs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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