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The present study aims to present, evaluate and identify the factors required to measure the prosperity and sustainability of Romania’s economy over the specific period 2000–2020 in light of sustainable regional development assessments, and examines how the main factors—as considered by the authors—may be integrated into regional development policies. The focus throughout the study is on the need to permanently support the development of Romanian regions in direct relation to the sustainable indicators presented within the model—through the use of data from empirical analysis—which are measures of Romania’s economic prosperity and long-term economic growth. Therefore, the study intends to assess the progress of each region of the country, showing the evolution and selection of factors that are related to sustainability, namely, child survival, poverty and education, with implications for regional development strategies and local initiatives that must promote wider sustainable regional development. Furthermore, the aim of the study is to analyse the influence of sustainable inflows on economic prosperity, reflected in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita for each region in Romania, considering factors related to sustainability and the major differences between the regions, depending on the effectiveness of these public policy applications. With this approach, our goal—considering all the macroregions of the country—is to emphasize the significance of two main aims in sustainable regional development: a better allocation of the means which actively aim to decrease the unemployment rate and a better infrastructure for public services. National, regional and local administrations play important roles in promoting coherent sustainability in economic, social and environmental activities. Regardless of the level at which development policies are devised—local, county or regional—they must take into consideration and monitor the determinants of sustainable development in cases where development is the ultimate goal.

This study aims to develop an Eradication of Poverty Model. Descendants of scavengers through pioneering MSME schools (Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises) in the Malang. This type of research phase one is a research development with the following steps: (1) Analysis of the situation, (2) Identification of respondents ‘characteristics, (3) Identification of respondents’ real needs, (4) based on situation analysis, identification of characteristics and the real needs of the respondents, then the Eradication of Poverty model of termination for the scavenger offspring in the Greater Malang area was developed. Type of Phase two is Action research. The second year is designed for testing (implementation) of the model that has been developed in Phase one, evaluating the model, revising it so that an Eradication of Poverty model in the Greater Malang area is tested. Factors of low interest in scavenger school descent include: environmental conditions, lack of motivation and support from both parents, lack of funds, and low parental knowledge of the importance of education on the eradication of poverty of scavengers. The MSME-based pilot school model was developed by giving material from the Save Street Children (SSC) community. Based on the activity, it was known that there was a need for facilitators from the Malang city environmental department and the education office to mobilize scavengers to participate in MSME-based pilot schools. The conclusion of this research is the known factors of low interest in scavenger school descent. This was overcome by the development of the fostered school model facilitated by related agencies.

Arable land resources are the basic livelihood security for people in poverty-stricken areas, and poor people are prone to uncontrolled expansion of arable land and exogenous ecological damage to secure their livelihoods. To avoid this vicious cycle, China’s poverty eradication policy requires greater management and restoration of arable land in poverty-stricken areas, but it is unknown what impacts it may bring. Therefore, this study examines the impact of policy implementation on arable land by the Difference-in-Differences (DID) model and uses the mediating and moderating models to test the policy’s mechanism on arable land. The results reveal that the policy significantly reduces the arable land, and the results remain robust, controlling for potential endogeneity variables and robustness tests. What’s more, the results of the mediating and moderating effect models indicate that the reduction of arable land is mainly due to the increase of unit yield, guiding the local people to abandon degraded land and to carry out ecological restoration, thus reducing the arable land area and achieving sustainable development. Finally, recommendations are proposed from the perspective of human-land coordination.

Objective: Kudumbashree is a poverty eradication mission implemented by the State of Kerala in India. The objective of this study is to understand the impact of Kudumbashree units in Kerala on women's development and empowerment.   Theoretical Framework: The study is based on the Kudumbashree initiative, a poverty eradication mission in Kerala, India. It operates as a neighbourhood-based self-help initiative, primarily focused on uplifting underprivileged sections of society, with a particular emphasis on women empowerment.   Method: The study examines the development achieved by women through their participation in Kudumbashree units in Kerala. It assesses the socio-economic benefits gained by women, such as financial independence, acquisition of new skills, and expansion of knowledge and expertise in various business domains.   Results and Conclusion: The study demonstrates that Kudumbashree units in Kerala have significantly empowered women. Women who participate in the Kudumbashree program experience socio-economic growth and contribute to higher levels of trust through their responsible engagement, participation, and active involvement.   Implications of the Research: The research highlights the importance of initiatives like Kudumbashree in promoting women's development and empowerment. It emphasizes the socio-economic benefits that women gain through their participation and the positive impact on societal engagement and trust.   Originality/Value: This study contributes to the understanding of the impact of Kudumbashree units. It sheds light on the comprehensive approach of Kudumbashree, supporting women in starting small businesses and achieving financial stability. The research highlights the significance of women's empowerment for overall societal development and provides insights for similar initiatives in other contexts.

Ambitious climate policies, as well as economic development, education, technological progress and less resource-intensive lifestyles, are crucial elements for progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, using an integrated modelling framework covering 56 indicators or proxies across all 17 SDGs, we show that they are insufficient to reach the targets. An additional sustainable development package, including international climate finance, progressive redistribution of carbon pricing revenues, sufficient and healthy nutrition and improved access to modern energy, enables a more comprehensive sustainable development pathway. We quantify climate and SDG outcomes, showing that these interventions substantially boost progress towards many aspects of the UN Agenda 2030 and simultaneously facilitate reaching ambitious climate targets. Nonetheless, several important gaps remain; for example, with respect to the eradication of extreme poverty (180 million people remaining in 2030). These gaps can be closed by 2050 for many SDGs while also respecting the 1.5 °C target and several other planetary boundaries.Current action is insufficient to meet both the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. Integrated model-based analysis shows that strong interventions across many dimensions, together with ambitious lifestyle change, are needed to enable real progress towards the UN Agenda 2030.

This paper explores the range of likely and potential progress on poverty eradication in fragile states to 2030. Using the International Futures model and recently released 2011 International Comparison Program data, this paper calculates current (2015) poverty for a US$1.90 poverty line, and subsequently runs three scenarios. The estimates suggest that there are 485 million poor in fragile states in 2015, a 33.5 per cent poverty rate. This paper's Base Case scenario results in a forecasted 22.8 per cent poverty rate in fragile states by 2030. The most optimistic scenario yields a 13.1 per cent poverty rate for this group of countries (257 million). An optimistic scenario reflecting political constraints in fragile states yields a 19.1 per cent poverty rate (376 million). Even under the most optimistic circumstances, fragile states will almost certainly be home to hundreds of millions of poor in 2030, suggesting that the world must do things dramatically differently if we are to reach the high hanging fruit and truly 'leave no one behind' in the next fifteen years of development.

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change aims to keep warming below 2 °C while recognizing developing countries’ right to eradicate extreme poverty. Poverty eradication is also the first of the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper investigates potential consequences for climate targets of achieving poverty eradication. We find that eradicating extreme poverty, i.e., moving people to an income above $1.9 purchasing power parity (PPP) a day, does not jeopardize the climate target even in the absence of climate policies and with current technologies. On the other hand, bringing everybody to a still modest expenditure level of at least $2.97 PPP would have long-term consequences on achieving emission targets. Compared to the reference mitigation pathway, eradicating extreme poverty increases the effort by 2.8% whereas bringing everybody to at least $2.97 PPP would increase the required mitigation rate by 27%. Given that the top 10% global income earners are responsible for 36% of the current carbon footprint of households; the discourse should address income distribution and the carbon intensity of lifestyles. The consequences of poverty eradication on limiting warming to 2 °C are not fully clear. Here, Hubacek et al. find that while ending extreme poverty does not jeopardize the climate target, moving everybody to a modest expenditure level increases required mitigation rate by 27%

The 2030 Agenda has among its key objectives the poverty eradication through increasing the level of education. A good level of education and investment in culture of a country is in fact necessary to guarantee a sustainable economy, in which coexists satisfactory levels of quality of life and an equitable distribution of income. There is a lack of studies in particular on the relations between some significant dimensions, such as education, culture and poverty, considering time lags for the measurement of impacts. Therefore, this study aims to fill this gap by focusing on the relationship between education, culture and poverty based on a panel of data from 34 European countries, over a 5-year period, 2015–2019. For this purpose, after applying principal component analysis to avoid multicollinearity problems, the authors applied three different approaches: pooled-ordinary least squares model, fixed effect model and random effect model. Fixed-effects estimator was selected as the optimal and most appropriate model. The results highlight that increasing education and culture levels in these countries reduce poverty. This opens space to new research paths and policy strategies that can start from this connection to implement concrete actions aimed at widening and improving educational and cultural offer.

The resulting publications are generally called systematic reviews, and often include a meta-analysis. Since the 1980s, the practice of evidence synthesis has grown to become the foundation for high-impact decision-making in disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and in other aspects of health. Evidence synthesis can be applied to the most pressing global challenges: climate change, energy transitions, biodiversity loss, antimicrobial resistance, poverty eradication and so on. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been very effective in synthesizing evidence on the anthropogenic causes of climate change, its impacts and the potential effects of long-term emission-reduction strategies. Living evidence could help to firmly establish this capacity to ensure that the thousands of decisions needed to achieve net-zero emissions are supported by reliable and up-to-date scientific evidence.

In recent years, there has been growing interest in defining what exactly constitutes “decent living standards” (DLS)—the material underpinnings of human well-being. We assess the gaps in providing decent health, shelter, nutrition, socialization, and mobility within countries, across the world. Our results show that more people are deprived of DLS than are income-poor, even when numbers are measured against medium income poverty thresholds. We estimate the cumulative energy needs for building out new infrastructure to support DLS provision for all by 2040 to be about 290 EJ, which amounts to less than three-quarters of current annual global energy demand, at the final energy level. The annual energy requirements to support decent living for the global population after 2040 is estimated to be 156 EJ yr −1 . Present average energy demand levels in most countries exceed hypothetical DLS energy needs. Nevertheless, the required rate of increase in energy to provide decent living for all in the coming two decades would be unprecedented for many countries. Greater attention to equity would significantly reduce the need for growth. The per capita energy requirement of different countries to meet the same DLS levels varies by up to a factor of four due to differences in climate, urbanization, diets, and transport infrastructure. Transport energy dominates energy for decent living worldwide, while housing requirements dominate upfront energy investment needs. This study supports the claim that the increase in energy provision poverty eradication does not, in itself, pose a threat to mitigating climate change at a global scale. Distinguishing energy for affluence from energy for decent living could provide a basis for defining equitable access to sustainable development in energy terms.