Issue Uneven pathways to prosperity
Summary
Post-pandemic recovery split by institutional strength, fiscal space and human capital, with debt, climate stress and labour disruption narrowing the routes out even where headline poverty improved, and technology widening rather than closing the gap.
Classification
Main topicMacroeconomy & Finance
Region menusGlobal
Impactscope:global
Time horizon4-10 years (2026-07-25)
Last updated2026-07-29 04:49:52
Evidence 1
- The landscape of development: UNDP trends update 2026 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Strategy & Futures Team, Executive Office page=11;section=Theme 6: Uneven pathways to prosperity 2026-02 accessed 2026-07-25
Constituent trends 1
- TrendGrowing inequalities fueling discontent0 signals
Directly linked signals 5
- SignalDomestic resource mobilisation and tax reform prioritised at Sevilla
- SignalGrowth below 3% in 2026-27 makes the 2020s the slowest decade since the 1960s
- SignalInequality ranked the most interconnected global risk of the decade
- SignalNature investment estimated at $10 trillion of business value and 395 million jobs
- SignalPoverty falling in 80% of countries while sub-Saharan extreme poverty stays at 46%
Relation types: constitutes · direct_urgent
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