Tag: Second World Summit for Social Development

Poverty’s Stubborn Persistence, Clean Cooking and Climate Change: The 2025 Global Poverty Wake-Up Call that No One Can Afford to Ignore

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Global poverty remains stubbornly persistent. The just-released 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report delivers a hard truth: the world is losing the war on poverty. In previous years, as I blogged earlier here, the number of people living in acute multidimensional poverty has hovered above 1 billion, and nothing much has changed today: 1.1 …

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Contributing to the Global Dialogue on Poverty: My SAGE Feature for the Second World Summit on Social Development, Doha 2025

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Last month, I was commissioned by SAGE’s International Journal of Community and Social Development to write a special feature on ending global poverty. The article, now published and accessible here, is part of a Special Issue intended to inform and influence deliberations at the Second World Summit on Social Development, scheduled for November 2025 in …

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