A/HRC/44/40 Contents Page I. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Extreme poverty is not being eradicated .......................................................................................... 3 A. Misplaced reliance on the World Bank’s international poverty line ........................................ 4 B. The Bank’s response ................................................................................................................ 7 C. The failure to eliminate poverty ............................................................................................... 8 D. COVID-19: a pandemic of poverty.......................................................................................... 9 Recalibrating the SDGs .................................................................................................................... 10 A. Lack of adequacy and impact .................................................................................................. 10 B. Unrealized transformative potential ......................................................................................... 11 C. Revisiting the agenda ............................................................................................................... 13 Steps towards ending poverty........................................................................................................... 14 A. Reconceive the relationship between growth and poverty elimination .................................... 14 B. Tackle inequality and embrace redistribution .......................................................................... 15 C. Move beyond the aid debate and promote tax justice .............................................................. 16 D. Implement universal social protection ..................................................................................... 17 E. Center the role of government ................................................................................................. 17 F. Embrace participatory governance .......................................................................................... 18 G. Adapt international poverty measurement ............................................................................... 19 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 19 III. IV. V.