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 …

for Guatemala couched within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda. Overall, Guatemala faces … infrastructure SDGs. While substantial, these cost estimates are commensurate with a well-defined financing strategy encompassing …

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015 represent a new global consensus to … end poverty, promote prosperity, and protect the environment. Goal 8 seeks to improve global resource efficiency in … consumption and production and to decouple economic growth (GDP) from environmental degradation while Goal 12 focuses on …

Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have shown strong signs of growth resilience in … the aftermath of the recent global crisis. Yet, this paper finds evidence that growth has more than proportionately … benefited the top quintile during PRSP implementation. It finds that PRSP implementation has neither reduced poverty headcount …

economic growth and poverty reduction, particularly focusing on public policy mechanisms to reduce poverty and inequality … poverty reduction. First, it examines the structure of economic growth and its proximate determinants in the two countries …. Malaysia, unlike Pakistan, was able to sustain rapid economic growth with equally impressive reduction in poverty because the …

This paper examines the empirical relationship between inequality and growth, and analyzes the impacts of growth …, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that … challenge the belief that income inequality has a negative effect on growth and confirm the validity of the Kuznets curve …

substantial progress along the SDGs by 2030. We estimate the additional spending needed in critical areas of human capital (health …

Inclusive growth, narrowly defined in this paper as growth that helps reduce inequality, is achieved if consumption of …

fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the … that reducing consumption volatility would have on aggregate poverty. We then discuss coverage of consumption insurance …

for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue …-effective approach to poverty alleviation. Such an approach should be financed by switching revenue raising from rice tariffs to more …