Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting Course

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“…To estimate how much economic growth is needed to end extreme poverty, we first estimate the historical relationship between growth in GDP per capita and growth in consumption per capita in a random slope regression model, taking into account trends across and within countries. We use data for 168 countries from the World Bank's 2022 Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report 10 , converting income distributions to consumption distributions where needed. We find that, on average, when GDP per capita grows by 1%, consumption per capita grows by 0.7%, with variation between countries (the remainder of growth in GDP per capita is likely allocated to savings which would imply that the savings rate converges to around 30% in the long term).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Monetary welfare measures fail to capture all dimensions of well-being or deprivation. 10,32 Importantly, previous research suggested that pathways to ending deprivation and satisfying basic human needs can differ from pathways to eradicating monetary poverty and may be achieved at lower emissions intensity. 33 There are further some methodological challenges concerning the poverty estimates we rely on.…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Climate Implications of Ending Global Poverty

Wollburg¹,

Hallegatte²,

Mahler³

2023

Policy Research Working Papers

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Previous studies have explored potential conflicts between ending poverty and limiting global warming by focusing on the carbon emissions linked to the consumption of the world's poorest.Here we instead focus on economic growth as the main driver of poverty alleviation and estimate the emissions associated with the economic growth needed to eradicate poverty. With this framing, eradicating poverty requires not only to increase the consumption of poor people but also the consumption of non-poor people in poor countries. Even in this more pessimistic framing and with historical energy-and carbon-intensity patterns, the global emissions increase associated with eradicating extreme poverty is small, at 2.37 GtCO2e per year or 4.9% of 2019 global emissions, relative to a scenario without poverty alleviation. These additional emissions would not affect materially the climate change challenge for the rest of the world: global energy emissions would need to be reduced by 2.08 GtCO2e per year, instead of 2.0 GtCO2e per year needed in the absence of any progress towards extreme poverty eradication. Lower inequality, higher energy efficiency, and decarbonization of energy can significantly ease this trade-off: assuming the best historical performance in all countries, in part a conservative scenario considering recent progress in green technologies, the additional emissions for poverty eradication in 2050 are reduced by 90%. At the global level, therefore, the need to eradicate extreme poverty cannot be used as a justification for reducing the world's climate ambitions. When trade-offs exist for specific policies or investments, the eradication of extreme poverty can be prioritized with negligible emissions implications. More ambitious poverty targets require more economic growth in more countries which creates more acute trade-offs. The estimated emissions increase in 2050 of eradicating poverty is 7.4 GtCO2e (or 15.3% of 2019 emissions) with the lower-middle-income poverty line at $3.65 per day and 22.1 GtCO2e (or 45.7% of 2019 emissions) with the $6.85 upper-middle-income poverty line. The challenge to align the world's development and climate objectives is not in reconciling extreme poverty alleviation with climate objectives but in providing middle-income standards of living in a sustainable manner.

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The Climate Implications of Ending Global Poverty

Wollburg¹,

Hallegatte²,

Mahler³

2023

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…Over the past 25 years, steady progress was occurring in poverty reduction until the Covid pandemic caused a significant setback. The global extreme poverty rate reached 9.3% in 2020, up from 8.4% in 2019 (World Bank, 2022). The world’s poorest people carried the steepest costs of the pandemic, their income losses were twice as high as the world’s richest, and global inequality rose for the first time in decades (Bundervoet et al , 2022).…”

Section: Sdg 1 No Poverty; Sdg 2 Zero Hunger; and Sdg 3 Good Health F...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The poorest also faced large setbacks in health and education which, if left unaddressed by policy action, will have lasting consequences for their lifetime income prospects. The recovery since 2020 has also been uneven, with rising food and energy prices, fueled in part by the war in Ukraine and by climate shocks and conflict hindering a swift recovery (World Bank, 2022). The recent crises have pushed the world further off track from the global goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030.…”

Section: Sdg 1 No Poverty; Sdg 2 Zero Hunger; and Sdg 3 Good Health F...mentioning

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SDG commentary: services that enable well-being of the human species

Hammedi,

Parkinson,

Patrício

2023

JSM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges, interplay and potential directions for future service research to address the first three Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of no poverty, zero hunger and good health and well-being. Design/methodology/approach This commentary examines how service research has addressed these SDGs in the literature, and through the development of a theory of change, the authors propose an agenda for service research going beyond serving, to enabling and transforming service systems, expanding the current focus on individual to community and population well-being through promotion and prevention. Findings Service research has increasingly advocated human-centered approaches but requires a shift towards an all of humanity perspective. Individual and collective well-being have gained attention in service research, emphasizing the importance of considering collective well-being. Research limitations/implications The commentary underscores the need for a comprehensive approach to develop services that contribute to the well-being of the human species. It calls for research that transcends dyadic interactions, considers systemic dynamics and broadens the focus from individual to collective and population well-being. Social implications This paper discusses important societal issues of poverty, hunger and good health and well-being and the need for integrated and ecosystem approaches to develop equitable and sustainable solutions for collective well-being. Originality/value While SDGs 1, 2 and 3 address individual goals, they collectively underpin the well-being of communities and societies.

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Coal dilemma: Is in situ clean power plant a way out?

Nie,

Jiang,

Liu

et al. 2024

EcoEnergy

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The global shift toward cleaner energy sources, driven by carbon neutrality goals and climate change urgency, faces a paradoxical rise in coal consumption despite efforts to expand alternative energies. Economic disparities drive reliance on coal, particularly in underdeveloped regions where affordability and accessibility dictate energy choices. To address this, innovative approaches such as harnessing controlled pulverized coal detonation for in situ clean power plants are proposed. These plants offer compact, efficient, and sustainable energy generation with reduced emissions and minimal environmental impact. In addition, a comparison of costs, efficiency, and environmental impact with conventional methods showcases the potential of this novel technology to transform coal‐based energy into a green and viable solution.

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Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting Course

Cited by 99 publications

References 158 publications

The Climate Implications of Ending Global Poverty

The Climate Implications of Ending Global Poverty

SDG commentary: services that enable well-being of the human species

Coal dilemma: Is in situ clean power plant a way out?

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