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Infographics: financing the reduction of extreme poverty post-Covid-19

November 2020

These infographics highlight the catastrophic effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on eradicating extreme poverty – and how we can mitigate it.

680 million paper will be living in extreme poverty by 2030.

Most countries can afford the investment needed to tackle extreme poverty by 2030 if they better target their spending.

More investment is needed in effective education; water, sanitation and hygiene; health and nutrition; and social protection programmes.

There are 34 countries that cannot even afford half the investment needed in education, health, nutrition, water, sanitation, hygiene and social protection to tackle extreme poverty by 2030.

Middle-income countries have half the world’s poor but 100 times more tax than low-income countries.