In recent years the debate around ending poverty has shifted from ’if’ to ’when’, with an increasing number of world leaders converging behind the vision to end extreme poverty by 2030. In 1990, 43% of the world’s people were living on less than $1.25 a day – today it is 21%. By 2030 we can and must get to zero, with no one left behind.
“Development Initiatives has once again produced an excellent report: Investments to End Poverty. It’s important because its focus is on action and the need to be unrelenting in our quest to eradicate extreme poverty. But it is more than a rallying cry; to be useful; reports such as this must be well researched and contain practical actions that can make a real difference. This report makes the grade and is an important contribution to the post 2015 debate, not least as the DAC considers how it can best measure and direct the many sources of external financing for development so they are as effective as possible.”
Erik Solheim
Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
Our Investments to End Poverty programme looks at the impact of all resources on poverty reduction. It provides independent, reliable, accessible data and information on resource flows and promotes the idea that all resources have a role to play in getting poverty to zero.
Our first Investments to End Poverty report recognises the fact that, despite global poverty falling at an unprecedented rate, growth alone will not be enough to end it altogether – a number of additional investments are needed. Aid continues to have a critical role but must be better targeted and used together with other resources to expedite the end of poverty. The report provides clear data to inform resource allocation for better results and ensure that there is greater accountability for funding decisions.
In the report
You can also download the report in the following sections:
Highlights – a short walk through key facts and figures on the road to ending poverty
Chapter summaries: what you need to know about:
- The prospects for ending extreme poverty by 2030 (Chapter 1)
- Using all resources available to end poverty (Chapter 2)
- Global aid trends: ODA (Chapter 3)
- The aid bundle (Chapter 4)
- Using data to get better results on poverty eradication (Chapter 5)
- The poverty of data (Chapter 6)
Chapters 1–6: the narrative: here we explore the vision of ending extreme poverty by 2030, map global aid trends, “unbundle” the aid mix and call for a Data Revolution
Chapters 7–11 : detailed 2- and 4-page profiles on who invests what, where and how
- Chapter 7: 11 flows such as foreign direct investment and private development assistance
- Chapter 8: 23 (DAC) countries who provide aid, from the US to Luxembourg
- Chapter 9: 9 other providers of development cooperation such as China, Brazil and India
- Chapter 10: 20 countries where aid is allocated including Viet Nam, Uganda and Afghanistan
- Chapter 11: 13 sectors that aid is spent on such as governance and security, and industry and trade
Zero Poverty 2030
Investments to End Poverty supports Zero Poverty 2030, a Global Citizen campaign and initiative of Global Poverty Project, run in partnership with individuals and charities from around the world. The campaign aims to secure hundreds of thousands of signatures to present to world leaders calling on governments to commit to provide support to end extreme poverty by 2030. Support Global Citizen’s Zero Poverty campaign via #by2030, www.zeropoverty2030.org and @zeropoverty2030.
