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Sources of Relief Funding for Poverty Alleviation

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Relief funding refers to potential financial solutions, concessional and non-concessional, for poverty alleviation. This includes public sector funding, private capital, and blended initiatives.

Introduction

The 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN 2015), which serves as an umbrella for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), represents the most ambitious program ever to confront societal grand challenges. Poverty eradication, as a major societal grand challenge, constitutes the leading goal and the first SDG (SDG1). This chapter aims to understand the causes behind poverty and its potential financial solutions, including aid and non-aid measures. Banerjee and Duflo, Nobel-winning economists in 2019, present comprehensive empirical studies on the economic lives of the poor living below the 1$/day line and their many trade-off decisions (Banerjee and Duflo 2007). This shows that poverty encompasses multiple dimensions and...

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  1. Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain

    Elisa Aracil & Laura Gismera

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  1. Elisa Aracil
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  6. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Department of Built Environment, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, Free State province, South Africa

    Bankole Awuzie

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Aracil, E., Gismera, L. (2020). Sources of Relief Funding for Poverty Alleviation. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) No Poverty. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69625-6_35-1

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