International Development – Lifting Nations Out of Poverty
Lifting Nations Out of Poverty — 2026 Edition — International development is the sustained effort — by governments, multilateral banks, non-governmental organisations and communities themselves — to raise living standards and expand human freedoms in the world's poorer countries. Its headline goal, enshrined in Sustainable Development Goal 1, is to end poverty in all its…
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What This Report Covers
Report Contents
- What Is International Development?
- The Global Poverty Picture in 2025
- SDG 1 and the Off-Track Agenda
- Foreign Aid: ODA Flows in a Down Year
- Remittances: The Quiet Giant
- Does Aid Work? The Sachs–Easterly Debate
- Microfinance and the Toolkit of Development
- Financing Development: The $4 Trillion Gap
- International Development in India
- References & Sources
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