TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Gassmann, Franziska
T1  - Social Assistance
T2  - Handayani (Ed.): Asia's Fiscal Challenge: Financing the Social Protection Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals
N2  - If the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to “End poverty in all its forms everywhere” is to be taken seriously, most low- and middle-income countries face a huge challenge. An estimated 1 billion people have indeed escaped extreme poverty since the early 1990s, and the global poverty rate fell from 35% in 1990 to 10.7% in 2013, but the absolute number of people living below the international poverty line of $1.90 at purchasing power parity has hardly changed. Countries in Asia contributed greatly to the overall decline in poverty rates: from 2012 to 2013, over 100 million people in Asia left extreme poverty behind, notably in India, Indonesia, and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) (World Bank 2016). Yet the living standards of those still below that line have hardly improved (Ravallion 2016). The achievement of the first SDG requires additional efforts at global and national levels, particularly on policies that address chronic poverty traps and that improve the outcomes of poor and vulnerable populations.
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-44496
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-44496
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.22617/TCS178935-2
SN  - 978-92-9261-290-0
SB  - 978-92-9261-290-0
SP  - 132
EP  - 167
PB  - Asian Development Bank
CY  - Manila
ER  -