SDG1 - No Poverty: Making the Dream a Reality(Concise Guides to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals)

For many decades the international community has endeavoured to eliminate extreme poverty; however, it is estimated that around 800 million people still live below the international poverty line of $1.90 a day. This book looks this global problem and presents applicable solutions to show that we can eliminate poverty today and meet the challenge of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 1.  The first part of the book discusses what poverty and development are and asks whether the right to development is an international commitment to eradicate poverty. The second part looks at the strategy of the Sustainable Development Goals, and the concept of happiness for all people in the world. It examines the proposition of SDG1, evaluates the first actions taken in this area, and presents the best practice of recent SDG implementation. The final part considers several proposals and presents suggestions on how to make global action more effective.  Concise Guides to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals comprises 17 short books, each examining one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The series provides an integrated assessment of the SDGs from economic, legal, social, environmental and cultural perspectives.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction 2. Poverty and development 3. The right to development as an international commitment to eradicate poverty 4. The principles of development aid policy 5. A framework of policies to combat poverty 6. Sustainable Development Goal 1 7. Good and bad practices in the eradication of poverty 8. New horizons for the eradication of poverty - recommendations 9. Conclusion

About the Author :
Katarzyna Cichos works as a researcher and lecturer at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Her research interests focus on public international law, with a specific emphasis on the legal and institutional aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals and international trade law. She holds a PhD in Law.Amanda Lange Salvia is a doctoral student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Passo Fundo, Brazil. Her research interests include sustainability, sustainable cities, sustainable universities, environment management, energy efficiency and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Review :
Cichos and Salvia present a broad, comprehensive picture of global efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG1), with the help of twenty-first century technology. On January 1, 2016, seventeen sustainable development goals (SDGs) of Agenda 2030, for Sustainable Development, were adopted by world leaders in September 2015, with the aim of mobilizing and ending all forms of poverty, fighting inequalities and tackling climate change. The authors believe that, as a global community, this can be achieved and poverty eliminated by 2030, or even earlier. They see poverty eradicated by concentrating on the participation of the poor by creating opportunities to build their own growth by means of investment in education, health, decentralized ownership, more access to public services and better infrastructure, inter alia. They also see SDG1 as the first step and as a political guideline.