Subject Guides: Sustainable Development Goals at NSCC: Goal 1: No Poverty

About Goal 1

Goal 1, No Poverty, aims to reduce poverty and ensure that poor and vulnerable people have access to basic services and equal rights to economic resources.

Learn more about Goal 1

The Global Goals. (2020, October 1). Unlocking potential to solve poverty [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/p6gl_lLyYAY

Resources and Links

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: 2021 report card on child and family poverty in Nova Scotia
Offers 17 recommendations for the Nova Scotia government to eradicate poverty
Canadian Poverty Institute: Poverty Hub
A library of research on causes, impacts, policies, and best practices in poverty prevention and reduction
Opportunity for all: Canada's first poverty reduction strategy
Sets a bold vision for Canada as a world leader in the eradication of poverty: a vision for a Canada without poverty
The World Bank: Understanding Poverty
Data and research help us understand the challenges to help the world’s poorest people
World Vision: Global poverty: Facts, FAQs, and how to help
Explore frequently asked questions about poverty, global poverty statistics, and how you can help

Books

eBook - In the river they swim by Fairbanks et. al (Eds.)
If human development is a river, the authors in this volume, and perhaps some readers, will no longer be satisfied to stand along its banks.
Poor economics: A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee; Esther Duflo
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live.
Understanding global poverty: Causes, capabilities, and human development by Benjamin Curtis; Serena Cosgrove
A comprehensive guide to the theoretical frameworks of poverty through the lens of human development.

Key Organizations

Canada Without Poverty
Educating Canadians about the human and financial cost of poverty, and by identifying public policy solutions
Innovations for Poverty Action
A research and policy nonprofit that creates and shares evidence, while equipping decision-makers to use evidence to reduce poverty
United Nations Development Programme: Goal 1: No Poverty
Eradicating poverty in all its forms remains one of the greatest challenges facing humanity
World Vision Canada
A Christian relief, development and advocacy organization