Found: Poverty and the Sustainable Development Goals” concluded that “cuts were made with little reference

Found: Furthermore, our Report on “Extreme Poverty and the Sustainable Development Goals” concluded that “

Found: The situation is even worse for Syrian refugees, 90% of whom are in extreme poverty.

Found: The situation is even worse for Syrian refugees, 90% of whom are in extreme poverty.

Found: That is part of DFID’s wheelhouse; it traditionally did a lot of work on extreme poverty.

Found: That is part of DFID’s wheelhouse; it traditionally did a lot of work on extreme poverty.

Found: harsh sanctions force people into precarious and exploitative work.4 The UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has had recent discussions with (a) Unicef and (b) the United Nations Rapporteur on extreme poverty on initiatives to tackle child poverty.

Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

DWP officials engage with a wide range of stakeholders including UNICEF.

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how they differentiate their approach in the delivery of aid between (1) low income, and (2) lower-middle income, countries

Answered by Lord Benyon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The White Paper on International Development sets out how the UK will target aid where it is most needed and most effective. We will prioritise grant resources to the lowest income countries and communities and aim to spend 50 per cent of our bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). LDCs includes many low-income and lower-middle income countries. They are the least able to finance their development through taxes, borrowing or investment, and most of the world's poorest people live in LDCs which are either fragile, conflict-affected or vulnerable to climate change. This focus on LDCs will inform all our ODA spending.

We expect to spend less ODA in contexts where other sources of finance are available and will draw on ODA only as necessary in our partnerships with middle-income countries (MICs). We recognise MICs are a broad and variable group and their status masks pockets of extreme poverty and inequality, as well as acute humanitarian needs. ODA can be used in a targeted way to support their objectives and our shared priorities.

Found: 2023, (ac cessed 13 March 2024). 206 HMG, International development in a contested world: ending extreme

Found: governance; strengthening resilience and response to crisis; promoting global prosperity; tackling extreme

Found: governance; strengthening resilience and response to crisis; promoting global prosperity; tackling extreme

Found: DFID led the UK’s work to end extreme poverty, while FCO’s objectives were to protect British people

Found: on climate change, recognising that climate change and biodiversity loss are pushing millions into extreme

Found: By 2030, climate change and biodiversity loss will have pushed millions into extreme poverty.

Found: Bradshaw, J. and Mayhew, E. (2010) ‘ Understanding extreme poverty in the European Union’ , European

Found: The country has halved extreme poverty, a rare feat in Africa, and made notable advancements in education

Found: ‘Extreme poverty, 2015-2022’.

Found: If current trends continue, more than 342 million women and girls could be living in extreme poverty 

Found: free trade has grown, it is no coincidence that more than a billion people have been lifted out of extreme

Found: The 2023 White Paper International development in a contested world: ending extreme poverty and tackling