SDG #1: No poverty | Economic Analysis and Policy Division

Foreign workers provide service to a customer at a booth for currency exchange and money transfers. Credit : ILO/Apex Image Date : 2009/07 Country : United Arab Emirates

World Economic Situation and Prospects: November 2025 Briefing, No. 196

Remittances—an important income source for millions of households—have become one of the largest forms of external financing for developing countries, with total inflows in 2023–2024 exceeding the combined value of net foreign direct investment inflows and official development assistance.

Beyond GDP: what Multidimensional Measures of Poverty and Well-being add to Dashboards and Composite Indices, by Sabina Alkire, Maya Evans and James Foster (CDP Background Paper No. 60)

This paper proposes using the existing Global Multidimensional Poverty Index for a global comparison for developing countries.

World Economic Situation and Prospects: June 2025 Briefing, No. 190

The global economic outlook as of mid-2025 has deteriorated notably, according to the latest World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) update. Global growth is now forecast to slow to 2.4 per cent in 2025, down from 2.9 per cent in 2024 and 0.4 percentage points below the January forecast.

World Social Report 2023: Leaving No One Behind In An Ageing World

Population ageing is a defining global trend of our time. People are living longer, and more are older than ever before.

Eradicating poverty by 2030: Implications for Income Inequality, Population Policies, Food Prices (and Faster Growth?), by Giovanni Andrea Cornia (CDP Background Paper No. 40)

The paper examines whether the planned eradication of poverty to the year 2030 part of the SDG strategy is compatible with the expected trends in key economic variables such as GDP growth, population growth, income inequality and food prices.