Our Scans · (LF.1) No Poverty · Weekly Summary

In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. If these Goals are completed, it would mean an end to extreme poverty, inequality and climate change by 2030.
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.

• [New] According to the UN Women Gender Snapshot, closing the gender digital divide could boost global GDP by $1.5 trillion and lift 30 million women out of poverty - that is the scale of the opportunity we are talking about. UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• [New] Without effective interventions, the annual mortality attributable to AMR is predicted to rise to 8.22 million by 2050, with projected economic losses of up to 3.8% of global gross domestic product, which could lead to an increase of 28 million people in extreme poverty. Nature
• [New] The lives of children worldwide are threatened by preventable circumstances including, but not limited to, diseases, poverty, malnutrition, death penalties and environmental degradation. TRANSCEND Media Service
• [New] By 2030, AMR will cost the global economy $3.4 trillion yearly, and by 2050 it will have pushed 28 million people into poverty. Milken Institute
• By maintaining policy stability, refining monitoring and assistance mechanisms, strengthening industrial and employment support, and establishing effective asset management and long-term operational systems, China aims to ensure one thing above all: There will be no large-scale return to poverty. CGTN
• The decarbonization of Europe will become synonymous with its de-industrialization and eventually with its poverty and its irrelevance. amg-news.com - American Media Group
• A workers' government in the United States, simply by laying its hands on the $1 trillion increase in wealth for 19 households, could abolish poverty, hunger and homelessness. World Socialist Web Site
• As China now moves towards comprehensive rural revitalization, balancing external assistance with internal development capabilities is crucial, laying a more stable foundation and creating more opportunities for poverty-stricken regions and populations. CGTN
• When projected onto future climate simulations and combined with demographic and poverty projections consistent with the IPCC Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, the AI model reveals sharply diverging food-crisis risks by century's end. Joint Research Centre
• At best, troop deployments in Latin America might temporarily suppress violence but do not address the structural drivers of crime, from poverty and inequality to generalized corruption. Foreign Affairs Magazine
• Federal proposals and rules that restrict immigrant families' access to Medicaid, SNAP, and other basic supports, which advocates say will push more children into poverty, worsen health, and increase child welfare involvement. INVISIBLE CHILDREN
• Projecting India as the use case capital of the world might neither result in real gains for people experiencing poverty, nor solve complex socio-economic developmental problems. Center for the Study of Organized Hate
• A rise in the state pension age will plunge more than a hundred thousand people into poverty. BBC News
• Rising food prices and declining farm incomes are putting increasing pressure on the global food system, with up to 720 million people at risk of falling into extreme poverty. National Today

Last updated: 23 March 2026