Eradicating Poverty in Fragile States: Prospects of Reaching the "High-Hanging" Fruit by 2030

As the world approaches the target year of the Millennium Development Goals and passes into the new, post-2015 era, the development community has made a call for a new international development goal of eradication of extreme poverty by 2030. How feasible is that? For most of the developing world, th...

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Main Authors	Burt, Alison, Hughes, Barry, Milante, Gary
Format	Publication
Language	English
Published	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 01.08.2014
Subjects	ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY AGRICULTURAL YIELDS AVERAGE GROWTH BUREAUCRATIC QUALITY CAPACITY-BUILDING CAPITAL INVESTMENT CASH TRANSFERS CHANGES IN POVERTY CHRONIC POVERTY CIVIL SOCIETY CLEAN WATER CLIMATE CHANGE CONFLICT CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA CORRUPTION COUNTRY INEQUALITY CURRENT POVERTY DEMOCRACY DENSITY FUNCTION DETERMINANTS OF POVERTY DEVELOPED WORLD DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DIRECT INVESTMENT DIVERSIFICATION ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMICS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY EXTREME POVERTY FINANCIAL FLOWS FOREIGN AID GINI COEFFICIENT GINI INDEX GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP GLOBAL POVERTY GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE PERFORMANCE GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEALTH CARE HEALTH OUTCOMES HIGH GROWTH HIGH INEQUALITY HIPC HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT IMPROVING GROWTH INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME GENERATION INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVEL INCOME LEVELS INCREASING INEQUALITY INEQUALITY INEQUALITY CHANGES INEQUALITY CONSTANT INEQUALITY DATA INEQUALITY REDUCTION INEQUALITY WILL INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE INSTITUTIONAL REFORM INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION LABOR MARKET LIFE EXPECTANCY LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEAN VALUE NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL INCOME NATURAL RESOURCES POLICY CHANGES POLICY LEVEL POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL REFORMS POOR POOR COUNTRIES POOR HEALTH POOR INFRASTRUCTURE POOR LIVING POOR PEOPLE POOR POPULATION POOR POPULATIONS POPULOUS COUNTRIES POST-CONFLICT COUNTRIES POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY ERADICATION POVERTY ESTIMATES POVERTY GOALS POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION POLICIES POVERTY TARGET PRIMARY SCHOOL PRODUCTION FUNCTION PUBLIC FINANCES PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY QUALITY OF LIFE REDUCED INEQUALITY REDUCED POVERTY REDUCING INEQUALITY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS SANITATION SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARD DEVIATION STATE CAPACITY STRUCTURAL POLICIES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRADE OPENNESS TRANSPARENCY
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Summary:	As the world approaches the target year of the Millennium Development Goals and passes into the new, post-2015 era, the development community has made a call for a new international development goal of eradication of extreme poverty by 2030. How feasible is that? For most of the developing world, the goal seems ambitious, yet achievable -- but what about the prospects for fragile states in which an increasingly large share of the global poor will live (estimated at nearly four in 10 by 2030)? This paper presents a base case scenario with the International Futures model that forecasts a 32 percent poverty rate for fragile states by 2030 given current conditions and trends. The paper considers alternative scenarios to identify a range of possible outcomes. In the most optimistic scenario, the paper steps beyond the search for realistic policy levers and simply assumes exceptional economic growth and decreased inequality for fragile states. This extremely optimistic scenario produces a forecast of a 20 percent extreme poverty rate for this group of countries. The paper then explores the effects of improved institutions and improved security in fragile states and of a set of poverty reduction policies that would be conditional on security and good governance to be effective. The resulting aggressive but reasonably attainable poverty rate in fragile states is 24 percent in 2030. With newly revised Purchasing Power Parity values (rebased to 2011 by the International Comparison Project in May of 2014), the 2030 forecasts of fragile state poverty rates are lower by 5 to 6 percent across all scenarios, still leaving them significantly above the 3 percent threshold for poverty eradication.
Bibliography:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19392