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Global efforts to minimize poverty amid COVID-19 are 'full of holes': UN expert

Report / 11th September 2020

Current social protection programs are not enough to stop millions of people falling into poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

As global population grows, ecological threats and armed conflict could displace over 1 billion people by 2050

Report / 11th September 2020

An analysis released Wednesday by an international think tank warns that as the world's population continues to climb toward and possibly surpass 10 billion by 2050, ecological disasters and armed conflict could forcibly displace roughly 10% of humanity—or about 1.2 billion people.

COVID-19 and the SDGs

Report / 17th August 2020

A new briefing summarises the actual or likely impacts of the global coronavirus crisis on each of the 17 Sustainable Development goals. By Jens Martens, Bodo Ellmers and Vera Pokorny for Global Policy Watch.

'Temporary Basic Income' could slow COVID surge, provide lifeline for world’s poorest

Report / 28th July 2020

The immediate introduction of a Temporary Basic Income for the world’s poorest people could slow the current surge in COVID-19 and enable close to three billion people to stay at home, according to a new report from the United Nations Development Programme.