Global poverty dynamics and resilience building for sustainable poverty reduction

• Published in: Journal of geographical sciences Vol. 31; no. 8; pp. 1159 - 1170
• Main Authors: Li, Yuheng, Wu, Wenhao, Wang, Yongsheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Science Press 01.08.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Climate change; Earth and Environmental Science; Economic growth; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Geography; Nature Conservation; Physical Geography; Poverty; Purchasing power parity; Regular; Regular Articles; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry; Science; Sustainable development; resilience building; poverty gravity center; sustainability; poverty reduction

There is less than a decade left to accomplish the goal of ending global poverty by 2030. This paper investigates global poverty dynamics and finds a shift in the world’s poverty gravity center from South Asia to Africa in the period 1990–2015. Sub-Saharan Africa has become the main battlefield for...