Source material and useful links

for Tread Softly background briefings on Global Poverty

Statistics
PovcalNet – the World Bank tool for creating global poverty statistics

Poverty chapter from 2016 World Bank report Poverty and Shared Prosperity: Taking on Inequality

Inequality

The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index – from Oxfam

An Economy for the 99% – Oxfam Briefing Paper

International Poverty Line

Monitoring Global Poverty – Summary Report of the Commission on Global Poverty

A Global Count of the Extreme Poor in 2012 – Data Issues and Methodology in updating the International Poverty Line to $1.90, from World Bank

Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) – Frequently Asked Questions

Poverty Analysis and Advocacy

Taking on Inequality – Poverty and Prosperity 2016 (World Bank)

Investments to End Poverty 2015 from Development Initiatives

Global Call to Action Against Poverty

The Chronic Poverty Report 2014/15: Executive Summary

Social Protection

Chronic Poverty Advisory Network

Sustainable Development Goal
From a Billion to Zero:Three Key Ingredients to End Extreme Poverty, by Laurence Chandy, Hiroshi Kato, and Homi Kharas

Climate Change
Zero Poverty Zero Emissions – Eradicating extreme poverty in the climate crisis – Summary report from Overseas Development Institute

Tax Justice
Tax Justice Network

Recent news and opinion about Global Poverty

Inflation, COVID plunges 68 million into poverty in Asia

24/8/2023: An estimated 155.2 million people in developing Asia, which is 3.9% of the region's population, lived in extreme poverty as of last year. This figure was 67.8 million higher than it would have been without the pandemic and cost-of-living crises, according to a report published by the Asian Development Bank.

Source: DW

Fragility & poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: two sides of the same coin

17/8/2023: In the three decades since 1990, extreme poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa has declined only slightly; whereas in South Asia and in East Asia and the Pacific regions the reduction has been very significant. Fragility, conflict, and violence, or more generally, the lack of peace and security, is a key explanation for the difference.

Source: Inter Press Service

How (and why) Nigeria should remove its fuel subsidy

5/5/2023: Nigeria spends a quarter of its budget on a regressive fuel subsidy. Removing it and distributing the savings can help the poorest. A defining moment for Nigerians could come after the swearing-in of Nigeria’s new president on 29 May.

Source: African Arguments

Richest 1% are winners in global wealth since 2020 crisis

16/1/2023: An Oxfam report finds that the richest 1% of the world’s population grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth created since 2020. The number and wealth of billionaires has doubled over the last ten years.

Source: Oxfam International

UN rights expert calls for end to discrimination against poverty

7/11/2022: The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights believes that progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals depends on stamping out negative attitudes towards the millions of people worldwide who are struggling just to get by.

Source: UN News

Will Africa’s metals boom suffer the same curse as oil?

25/10/2022: African soil is rich in manganese, cobalt, nickel and lithium - crucial ingredients in clean energy technology. But the exploitation of resources in Africa has a long history of unequal distribution of wealth, corruption, environmental damage and rights violations.

Source: The East African

Fuel subsidy cuts won’t scratch Indonesian president

19/10/2022: Indonesia has remained stable in the weeks following an unpopular cut to the government’s fuel subsidy. As with all fuel subsidies, a large share of the benefits go to the middle-class. Poorer Indonesians would be better protected through targeted economic relief.

Source: East Asia Forum

Lifting 100 million out of poverty by 2025 still possible

17/10/2022: The latest update of the Multidimensional Poverty Index demonstrates that nearly twice as many people should be recognised as living in poverty compared with those assessed by the single monetary benchmark of $1.90 per day. It suggests that cutting-edge data and analytics can pinpoint the areas where spending will have the most impact.

Source: UN News

Report confirms inequality explosion during pandemic

11/10/2022: A new index finds that the overwhelming majority of governments have cut their shares of health, education and social protection spending since the 2020 outbreak of the pandemic. At the same time, they have refused to raise taxes on excessive profits and soaring wealth.

Source: Oxfam International

World Bank: Extreme poverty here to stay

5/10/2022: The World Bank reports that extreme poverty increased by 71 million in 2020, the biggest single-year leap in more than 30 years. COVID-19 has ended years of progress. Without a massive hike in economic growth, some 574 million people — roughly 7% of the global population — will remain in extreme poverty in 2030.

Source: DW

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