As presented at the SDG Moment 2021, UNDP’s flagship research found that eight out of ten people that are projected to be pushed into extreme poverty by 2030 as a result of COVID-19 will live in countries on the lower end of human development.
But this is not a foregone conclusion. With a set of integrated policy choices and investment done domestically and by the international development community, countries can exceed pre-pandemic development trajectories and meet SDG targets that otherwise would have been missed.