New paper out: Income and inequality pathways consistent with eradicating poverty

A new study led by Jihoon Min (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) and Bjoern Soergel (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) presents scenarios of future country-level GDP and inequality pathways that are consistent with the goal to eradicate poverty (UN Sustainable Development Goal 1). The three scenarios covered in the study span a range of possible pathways to poverty eradication, ranging from green growth in all countries to a post-growth future for high-income countries. The study shows that all scenarios would need rapid reductions in domestic inequality (measured as Gini coefficients), emphasizing that economic growth without reductions of inequality is insufficient to eradicate global poverty.  

The study is freely available online: Min, J. et al. (2024) ‘Income and inequality pathways consistent with eradicating poverty’, Environmental Research Letters, 19(11), p. 114041. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad7b5d.