Reducing poverty in Africa - realistic targets for the post-2015 MDGs and agenda 2063

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Turner, Sara
Cilliers, Jakkie
Hughes, Barry

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Institute for Security Studies

Abstract

The eradication of extreme poverty is a key component of the post-2015 MDG process and the African Union’s Agenda 2063. This paper uses the International Futures forecasting system to explore this goal and finds that many African states are unlikely to make this target by 2030. In addition to the use of country-level targets, this paper argues in favour of a goal that would see Africa as a whole reducing extreme poverty to below 20% by 2030 (15% using 2011 purchasing power parity), and to below 3% by 2063.

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Poverty, Post-2015 MDG, International futures, African Union’s Agenda 2063

Sustainable Development Goals

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Turner, S, Cilliers, J & Hughes, B 2014, 'Reducing poverty in Africa - realistic targets for the post-2015 MDGs and agenda 2063', African Futures Paper, no. 10, pp. 1-28.