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Graphs: financing the end of extreme poverty 2019

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These graphs highlight that 430 million people will be living in extreme poverty by 2030. Donors and countries both have a part to play in financing an end to it. 

While half of the poor will be in middle-income countries, poverty in low-income countries will be eight times deeper.
Low-income countries have 10 times less tax potential and receive three times less foreign direct investment and remittances.
Most low- and middle-income countries could afford the investment needed in human development to end extreme poverty.
Most countries that cannot afford to end extreme poverty are in Africa.
$308 billion is needed to end extreme poverty for the 46 countries that cannot afford it.
Proportion of OECD DAC aid going to least developed countries
As tax potential rises, aid does not fall (but increases)
The top three DAC donors are eight times more efficient than the bottom three donors at targeting extreme poverty.
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There is a wide range in efficiency among multilateral agencies and other donors.
Social protection is the least funded sector.