Grow, Invest, Insure : A Game Plan to End Extreme Poverty by 2030

Gill, Indermit S. ; Revenga, Ana ; Zeballos, Christian

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: poverty;    economic growth;    human capital;    investment;    social insurance;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7892
RP-ID  :  WPS7892

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

As global extreme poverty has fallen --by one measure, from close to 2 billion people in 1990 toabout 700 million today -- the world has learned aboutantipoverty strategies that work. These experiences shouldinform the final push to end extreme poverty. In the 1960sand 1970s, when close to half of the world was living inextreme poverty, the approach that worked best consisted oftwo sets of complementary measures: encouraging broad-basedgrowth that is labor using, and investing in education,health, and family planning. When extreme poverty rates camedown—first in East Asia and then in other parts of thedeveloping world—it became clear that the two-point strategyto make economies grow and enable people to invest in humancapital needed a social assistance supplement to help peoplewith disadvantages so severe that they could not benefitfrom economic opportunities and better social services. Thistwo-and-a-half-point strategy has been working well over thepast quarter century, and the end of extreme poverty is insight. But more people are now at risk of slipping back intopoverty because of economic, natural, and health-relatedhazards. To end extreme poverty by 2030, the approach nowneeds three complementary components: economic growth,investments in people, and measures to insure againstsetbacks to families, nations, and regions due todisabilities, recessions, disasters, and disease. Incountries that have reduced poverty a lot and those thatcould do a lot better, a winning game plan for putting aquick end to extreme poverty should be based on athree-point strategy: grow, invest, and insure.