Focus area 1. Poverty eradication
Given that poverty eradication is the primary aim of the new goals framework, there are unsurprisingly a wide range of proposals within the e-Inventory that address the issue. The majority of which, however, seemingly do so at the target level under a different thematic area as opposed to a standalone goal in its own right (i.e. treating poverty as a cross-cutting issue). Those that do propose an individual goal on poverty usually group it with other closely related issues, such as inequality and prosperity, and capacity building and social protection. This would suggest that a more multi-dimensional approach to poverty eradication is being promoted compared to that of the MDG framework.
Inequality and Prosperity
Goal
Poverty and Inequality [2]
Interlinkages
End extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity [3]
Interlinkages
Targets
Implement progressive and redistributive taxation, public spending and social policies (in education, health, wages and social protection) to minimize economic and social inequality.
End extreme poverty: the percentage of people living with less than $1.25 a day to fall to no more than 3 percent globally by 2030. Provide Support to small-scale farmers, women producers, rural workers secure access to water, land, soils, biodiversity, credit and infrastructure to end hunger and poverty.
Promote shared prosperity: foster income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population in every country.
