9.1: Poverty and Sustainable Growth

Help overcome poverty and spur sustainable growth in the poorest countries, especially in Africa.

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The Challenge. Many of the UN's Millennium Development Goals for 2015 seem out of reach for the world's poorest countries. An estimated 1.4 billion people survive on incomes of $1.25 or less a day. Rising food prices threaten to increase hunger and malnutrition, while climate change is affecting agriculture, the mainstay of most people in poor countries. Communicable diseases, especially HIV/AIDS and malaria, are widespread. Many of the poorest countries in Africa are landlocked and lack reliable electricity, hampering the development of business and trade. What We're Doing. The World Bank Group has assembled record funding to help the poorest countries through its International Development Association (IDA). We place new emphasis on fighting hunger and malnutrition, particularly through better agricultural productivity. We are encouraging regional integration and helping develop infrastructure: power, water, transport, and information and communications technologies. To produce faster results, IDA is undertaking joint programs with IFC, the World Bank Group's lead agency for private sector development, as well as with other nonprofit organizations.

Stakeholder(s):

• Poorest Countries


• Countries in Africa

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