Countries are facing unprecedented challenges
in their efforts to achieve sustainable development. The COVID-19 pandemic
is threatening lives, livelihoods, and entire economies, erasing decades of
economic progress, poverty reduction, and gains in human development. The
world has made great strides in reducing extreme poverty in recent decades,
but was not on track to reach the goal of ending it by 2030 even before the
coronavirus hit—the pandemic could push about 100 million more people into
extreme poverty in 2020. And by 2030, up to two-thirds of the world’s extreme
poor could be living in settings affected by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV).
