2018•Social outlook for Asia and the PacificRequires access

Poverty remains a challenge

United Nations

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Eradicating extreme poverty is at the centre of all international development efforts. Since 2000, the United Nations has embedded the goal of eradicating extreme hunger and poverty in the first of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Likewise, ending poverty in all its forms and dimensions is the first of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and an integral part of the entire 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Key concepts: Poverty, Millennium Development Goals, Extreme poverty, Sustainable development, Development economics, Political science, Economic growth, International development