End Poverty Day 2020: Surmounting Setbacks

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End Poverty Day 2020: Surmounting Setbacks

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Ravi Kumar

Welcome, everybody! I’m Ravi Kumar, with the Poverty and Equity Global Practice at the World Bank. I’ll be moderating this live chat today. Listed on this page you can see our panelists. Here with me are Michael Woolcock and Sam Freije-Rodriguez, lead authors of the report. We also have Melina Fleury with us. She is tweeting from @worldbanklive using #EndPoverty hashtag.  And we're on!
Sat, 10/17/2020 - 10:02
Ravi Kumar

The Bank’s recently released Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report estimates that between 88 and 115 million people will fall into extreme poverty this year, with the tally rising to as many as 150 million by the end of 2021. That would bring the total back up to 736 million, almost as high as in 2015, says Axel van Trotsenburg, World Bank’s Managing Director of Operations.
Sat, 10/17/2020 - 10:07
Diego Alcalde DĂ­az

As the UN Resolution on SDG is a not legally binding piece of legislation, what would you consider to be the hard-law mechanisms to improve implementation to tackle poverty? Thank you.
Sat, 10/17/2020 - 10:07
Shahida Saleem

How can poverty be removed in the present scenario of climate change and COVID 19 ?
Sat, 10/17/2020 - 10:08
Ravi Kumar

What this means is kids will not go to school. There will be higher mortality rates, more hunger, less clean water. There is enormous backtracking in key development areas, areas where good progress was being made. These are the features of poverty – and we need to do something, says Axel van Trotsenburg, Managing Director of Operations at the World Bank.
Sat, 10/17/2020 - 10:08

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