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Top 5 Sustainable Cities blogs of 2022
2022 draws to a close: another turbulent year, as a dire climate emergency, protracted war, and a lingering pandemic collide with fuel and food crises, impending recession, heightened poverty, and inequality. But innovations also abound across the world. It is no surprise, therefore, that our most-read blogs center on what can be done. First, each of the top 5 blogs in some way addresses problems and solutions that have been directly impacted by COVID-19.
Progress toward ending poverty has slowed
The latest poverty estimates show that 9.2% of the global population lived below the $1.90-a-day International Poverty Line in 2017. This amounts to 689 million people living in extreme poverty, 28 million fewer than in 2016 and 52 million fewer than in 2015. Notwithstanding this decrease in the number of poor, the recently published Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 report paints a sobering picture of progress toward the 2030 goal of reducing global poverty to below 3%.
Where the extreme poor live
The latest poverty estimates suggest a deceleration in global poverty reduction for 2017, confirming the trend in the last few years. One of the reasons behind this trend is Sub-Saharan Africa’s slower pace of poverty reduction compared with other regions. One of the key messages of the recently published Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 report is that extreme poverty will be a predominantly African phenomenon in the coming decade.
356 million children live in extreme poverty
An estimated 1 in 6 children—or 356 million globally—lived in extreme poverty before the pandemic, and this is set to worsen significantly, according to a new World Bank Group-UNICEF analysis. Global Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty: An Update notes that Sub-Saharan Africa—with limited social safety nets—accounts for two-thirds of children living in households that struggle to survive on an average of $1.90 a day or less per person—the international measure for extreme poverty.
Updated estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty: The effect of new data
In our previous post, we estimated that COVID-19 was responsible for 71 million to 100 million additional people falling into extreme poverty in 2020 (measured using the international poverty line of $1.90/day). Since the time of this analysis, we have integrated new data into PovcalNet—an online tool provided by the World Bank for estimating global poverty.
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