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Cichos, Katarzyna.

SDG1 - No Poverty : Making the Dream a Reality. - 1 online resource (145 pages) - Concise Guides to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Ser. . - Concise Guides to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Ser. .

Front Cover -- SDG1 - No Poverty -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Poverty and Development -- 2.1. The Meaning of Poverty -- 2.2. The Meaning of Development and Development Aid -- 2.3. Instruments for Measuring Poverty and Development -- 2.4. Where Do the Poorest Live? -- Chapter 3 The Right to Development as an International Commitment to Eradicate Poverty -- Chapter 4 Solidarity as Basic Development Aid's Principle -- Chapter 5 A Framework of Policies to Combat Poverty -- 5.1. United Nations -- 5.1.1. MDGs as a Framework for Eradicating Poverty -- 5.1.2. Agenda 2030 as a Framework for Eradicating Poverty -- 5.2. OECD -- 5.3. World Bank -- 5.4. European Union -- 5.5. African Union -- Chapter 6 Sustainable Development Goal 1 -- 6.1. Targets and Indicators -- 6.2. The UN SDG Reports - Measures Already Taken to Eradicate Poverty -- 6.3. Challenges to Achieve SDG1 -- Chapter 7 Good and Bad Practice in the Eradication of Poverty -- 7.1. Good Governance Challenges -- 7.1.1. The Role of CSOs -- 7.1.2. Decentralisation Reform and Development - The Example of Poland -- 7.1.3. Working with the Local Community - The Example of Community-driven Development -- 7.2. (Lack of) Coherence in the Geographical Allocation of Development Aid - The Example of the EU -- 7.3. Access to Energy - A Goal Still Missing? -- 7.4. Education and Health -- 7.5. Finance for the Poor - The Example of the Grameen Bank -- Chapter 8 New Horizons for the Eradication of Poverty - Recommendations -- 8.1. A More Local/regionally Oriented Development Policy -- 8.1.1. Proposal for a Council of Developing Regions and Donors -- 8.1.2. Regional or Local Strategies for Eradicating Poverty -- 8.1.3. The Organising of Local and Regional Communities -- 8.2. New Indicators or a New (binding) Agenda?. Chapter 9 Conclusion -- References -- Index.

This work provides a new look at global problems of poverty and presents applicable solutions to show that the global community can eliminate poverty today and achieve its global promise - Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1).

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