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Committee Material Published 13 Dec 2022 ↗ View on Parliament

The effects of COVID-19, climate change and conflict are undermining decades of progress on eliminating extreme poverty. Extreme poverty drives conflict, displacement and migration. Eliminating extreme poverty is fundamental to everyone’s security and prosperity. (Paragraph 23) Effective interventions

The effects of COVID-19, climate change and conflict are undermining decades of progress on eliminating extreme poverty. Extreme poverty drives conflict, displacement and migration. Eliminating extreme poverty is fundamental to everyone’s security and prosperity. (Paragraph 23) Effective interventions Type: conclusion | Number: 1 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: The Government is grateful to the International Development Committee for its inquiry and report into extreme poverty and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are the only globally agreed framework on sustainable development. The UK played a pivotal role in establishing the SDGs, and b