Fragility and conflict could stop the world from ending poverty

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Eliminating extreme poverty requires urgent focus on fragile and conflict-affected countries Urgent action and long-term development support are both needed in situations impacted by fragility and conflict. The World Bank Group released an FCV strategy, which combines financing, expertise and partnerships to help address these challenges. Press Release | FCV Strategy | Data | Video

By 2030 up to two-thirds of the global extreme poor will be living in fragile and conflict-affected situations Our new report notes that the 43 countries in the world with the highest poverty rates are in FCS and/or Sub-Saharan Africa.   Thousands in low-income communities in Nairobi get water and sanitation services With support from the World Bank, 84,940 people in Nairobi's informal settlements were provided with access to improved water sources, and 137,243 people were connected to the sewerage network.

Blogs

Disrupting Latin American education for disruptive technological change "According to the World Bank Learning Poverty indicator, more than half of the 10-year-old kids in Latin America and the Caribbean can hardly read or even understand a single paragraph … This is unacceptable if we are to dream about a region that adapts to the technological changes or, more importantly, if we are to dream of eliminating poverty and improving the living standards of all people in Latin America and the Caribbean. After all, to improve the welfare of the population, we need to create more jobs and ensure that they pay good salaries, something that will only happen with a productive labor force that has the required skills and education." -Humberto López – February 24

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At the turn of the millennium, 1 in 5 of the world's extreme poor lived in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS). Since then, poverty has fallen steadily in economies not in FCS, but the number of poor people in FCS continues to grow. As a result, about half the world's poor reside in FCS today. If current trends continue, by 2030, FCS will account for just 10% of the global population but as many as two-thirds of the world's poor. Read More.

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