Poverty

==Antipoverty institutions==
===United Nations===
{{See also|Sustainable Development Goals}}
In 2015 all UN Member States adopted the 17 [[Sustainable Development Goals]] as part of the [[Post-2015 Development Agenda]], which sought to create a future global development framework to succeed the [[Millennium Development Goals]], which were goals set in 2000 and were meant to be achieved by 2015.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Biermann |first1=Frank |last2=Kanie |first2=Norichika |last3=Kim |first3=Rakhyun E |date=2017-06-01 |title=Global governance by goal-setting: the novel approach of the UN Sustainable Development Goals |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343517300209 |journal=Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability |series=Open issue, part II |language=en |volume=26–27 |pages=26–31 |doi=10.1016/j.cosust.2017.01.010 |bibcode=2017COES...26...26B |issn=1877-3435}}</ref> Most targets are to be achieved by 2030, although some have no end date.<ref name="UN Stats-2017">{{Cite web |title=SDG Indicators - Global indicator framework for the Sustainable Development Goals and targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development |url=https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/indicators/indicators-list/ |access-date=6 August 2020 |website=United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)}}</ref> [[Sustainable Development Goal 1|Goal 1]] is to "end poverty in all its forms everywhere".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/poverty/|title = Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere}}</ref> It aims to eliminate extreme poverty for all people measured by daily wages less than $1.25 and at least half the total number of men, women, and children living in poverty. In addition, social protection systems must be established at the national level and equal access to economic resources must be ensured.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/sdg-2030/targets/lang--en/index.htm|title=2030 Development agenda: ILO Focus targets (The 2030 development agenda)|website=www.ilo.org}}</ref> Strategies have to be developed at the national, regional and international levels to support the eradication of poverty.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal1|title = Goal 1 &#124; Department of Economic and Social Affairs}}</ref>

===Development banks===
{{Main|Development bank}}
A ''development financial institution'', also known as a ''development bank'', is a [[financial institution]] that provides [[risk capital]] for [[Economic development|economic development projects]] on a non-commercial basis. They are often established and owned by governments to finance projects that would otherwise not be able to get financing from commercial lenders. These include [[international financial institutions]] such as the [[World Bank]], which is the largest development bank.

===Private sector===
{{See also|Nongovernmental organization}}
The [[private sector]] includes [[nonprofit organization|nonprofit]] [[nongovernmental organization]]s as well as for-profit institutions involved in combating poverty. In recent decades, the number of nongovernmental organizations has increased dramatically. The [[High level forums on aid effectiveness]] that was coordinated by the [[OECD]] found that this leads to fragmentation where too many agencies were financing too many small projects using too many different procedures and that the civil service of the donor countries were overstretched producing reports for each.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/international/2008/09/04/a-scramble-in-africa|title=A scramble in Africa|publisher=Economist magazine|access-date=2 June 2023|date=4 September 2008}}</ref>

The ''[[Poverty industrial complex]]'' refers to for-profit companies taking over roles previously held by government agencies. The incentive for profit in such companies has been argued to interfere with efficiently providing the needed services.