Leave No Country Behind: Ending Poverty in the Toughest Places

Abstract

In 2015, the members of the United Nations agreed to end extreme poverty by 2030, the first of 17 SDGs. For the world to achieve this, some 30 high poverty countries that have seen little to no poverty reduction in recent years will need to alter their current trajectories. These are the places where development is the most difficult, where entire countries and the people who live in them are at risk of being left behind.