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Well, so who are the chronic poor and
why is it important for a post-2015 agreement on sustainable development
to think about the chronically poor? There are
getting on to about half a billion people who are poor
over many years or for a lifetime
or possibly pass that poverty onto their children.
And they're trapped in poverty partly because of politics, partly because
of the institutions of the market, which don't operate in their favor.
And this isn't just because of a dearth of
opportunities or lack of economic growth - although that is
obviously very important. So what does it take to
get people permanently out of poverty and
address chronic poverty and what can an international framework do
to help this on its way? It takes
good politics, progressive policies to improve the situation that these
long-term poor people....
Measures like social assistance, seeing children through school for many years
a package of pro-poorist growth
initiatives and a
political society that begins to recognize
the needs and interests of chronically poor people. That doesn't happen very often because chronically
poor people don't
organize themselves very well and
so they need allies. The international community can be an
ally for the chronically poor. They can set
a poverty eradication goal and targets which
really address chronic poverty. They can
disaggregate progress so that we look at
the progress made by the bottom 5%...
10%....20% of the population.
They can of course set specific goals:
education - seeing children through
nine or ten years of education - QUALITY education
to help them get out of poverty so they can be a major
ally. The international community can be a major ally for the chronically poor.