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How Close to Zero?

Assessing the World’s Extreme Poverty-Related Trajectories for 2030

John W. McArthur and Krista Rasmussen
Brookings Institution, 2016
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In September 2015, member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that seek to end extreme poverty by 2030. This expert report from researchers John W. McArthur and Krista Rasmussen assesses whether 193 nations are on track to meet those SDG targets. Some of their findings are encouraging, while other results indicate there’s much work ahead for the global community. getAbstract recommends this important study to activists, economists and others interested in worldwide sustainability issues and in how countries are handling them.

Take-Aways

  • In September 2015, the United Nations established an ambitious mandate of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to assure “universal access to basic human needs” by 2030.
  • Based on available data in 2016, 143 of 193 countries analyzed are on track to meet SDGs for lowering child mortality rates, and 130 are set to do so for neonatal mortality. But only 63 appear likely to reach both objectives.
  • Expectations for achieving a target of universal access to sanitation are disappointing, with just 36 countries likely to accomplish that aim by 2030.

About the Authors

John W. McArthur is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where Krista Rasmussen is a research analyst.

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