Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Brief history of ARV treatment in South Africa

In the 90s, South Africa became an epicenter of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. HIV is mostly a sexually transmitted disease. Intravenous drug users are at risk too, however, and so are people who need blood transfusions. HIV/AIDS initially spread fast among the...

Multilateral bank

Vast role for governments

World Bank wants governments to do more to build human capital, generate taxes and provide social protection

Childhood

Education as key to overcome inequality

Social activist assesses the situation in Zambia concerning education and unequality

Lebanon

Fear of exclusion

Non-extreme poverty is a major problem in Lebanon, and state agencies do not help

PEGNet conference

Education for social advancement

Quality education for all helps to overcome social inequality

Our view

Why we need the SDGs

If market dynamics resulted in equal opportunities and broad-based prosperity, we would not need the SDGs

Development strategy

“People have created poverty”

Anthropologist reframes poverty the result of plundering by a few people in rich countries at poor countries’ expense

World Bank Report on work, social protection and taxes

State action to facilitate market dynamics

Health care

Free access for the extremely poor

The Health Equity Fund is improving access to health care for the poorest people in Cambodia

Social cohesion

Good progress with further room for improvement

How well India is doing in terms of fighting poverty depends on what yardstick is applied

Food security

Pioneering urban agriculture

How “production in the community, by the community, for the community” became the paradigm of agricultural policy in Cuba