progress in SDGs by 2030. Benin and Rwanda are presented in detail through case studies. The main lessons are: i) average … sources given the scale of additional spending, and iv) strong national ownership of SDGs is key and should be reflected in …

This paper assesses the additional spending required to make substantial progress towards achieving the SDGs in … are derived using the IMF SDG costing methodology. We find that to achieve the SDGs in these sectors would require …

among the rich when expenditures are assessed relative to consumption. At the extreme poverty line of USD 1.90-a-day, most …

This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings … to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining …

when considering the prevalence of poverty and chronic undernutrition at the upazilla level …

poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … to 2030 under different assumptions about growth and inequality. This allows for quantifying the interdependence of the … inequality and relies on the Model-based Recursive Partitioning machine-learning algorithm to model how growth in GDP is passed …

Is there a one-size-fits-all approach to inclusive growth? We look at four key case studies across advanced and … countries the key components of inclusive growth models, outcomes from these models, and the road ahead in the respective … role of social assistance and commodity boom in Brazil, and the inequality puzzle in Egypt. The paper finds that there is a …