How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis
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Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels …
  • MacroCyclo
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    1 month ago

    The headline is a bit misleading. The authors give a range from 30-44%.

    Very interesting conclusions on economic growth and extreme poverty. When an economy grows, the basic necessities might become too expensive for the poorest in the country.

    • Kissaki@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 month ago

      The headline is a bit misleading. The authors give a range from 30-44%.

      Their abstract mentions only 30%. That would mean the authors themselves are misleading in the abstract.

      Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use