Empowering Theory of Poverty Reduction for Sustainable Development: Does the Welfare of Descendants Matter?

Juliusz Piwowarski


University of Public and Individual Security "Apeiron" in Cracow, Krupnicza 3, 31-123 Kraków (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9196-1194

Larysa Yankovska


Lviv University of Business and Law, Kulparkivska, 99, 79021 Lviv (Ukraine)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1855-0169

Bohdan-Petro Koshovyi

qqbkqq@gmail.com
Lviv University of Business and Law, Department of Demography, Labor Relations and Social Policy, Kulparkivska str., 99, 79021 Lviv (Ukraine)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8550-0028

Ira Von-Nagy


Fachärztin für HNO-Heilkunde, Chiemgauerstraße 144, 81549 München (Germany)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2748-7766

Andrii Yevstakhevych


Lviv University of Business and Law, Department of Business Economics and Information Technology, Kulparkivska, 99, 79021 Lviv, (Ukraine)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1058-5359

Abstract

The first Sustainable Development Goal expresses the global concern in poverty eradication. We looked at the theory of poverty reduction with a long-term perspective in mind to confirm the congruence of modern approaches and their compliance with the principles of sustainable development. Despite clear signs of targeting Sustainable development goals to the future, we have found that future poverty needs deep discussion. We researched legal acts, policies and scientific sources to prove the possibility and suitability of recognising future poverty as a valid form of poverty. We considered the main possible difficulties that will challenge initiatives of future poverty exhausting. Finally, we proposed several perspective directions of further research to include the future poverty concept into the agenda of governments and supranational organisations.


Keywords:

future poverty, Sustainable development goals, forms of poverty, poverty reduction policy

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Piwowarski, J., Yankovska, L., Koshovyi, B.-P., Von-Nagy, I., & Yevstakhevych, A. (2022). Empowering Theory of Poverty Reduction for Sustainable Development: Does the Welfare of Descendants Matter?. Problemy Ekorozwoju, 17(1), 52–63. https://doi.org/10.35784/pe.2022.1.05

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Juliusz Piwowarski 

University of Public and Individual Security "Apeiron" in Cracow, Krupnicza 3, 31-123 Kraków Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9196-1194

Authors

Larysa Yankovska 

Lviv University of Business and Law, Kulparkivska, 99, 79021 Lviv Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1855-0169

Authors

Bohdan-Petro Koshovyi 
qqbkqq@gmail.com
Lviv University of Business and Law, Department of Demography, Labor Relations and Social Policy, Kulparkivska str., 99, 79021 Lviv Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8550-0028

Authors

Ira Von-Nagy 

Fachärztin für HNO-Heilkunde, Chiemgauerstraße 144, 81549 München Germany
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2748-7766

Authors

Andrii Yevstakhevych 

Lviv University of Business and Law, Department of Business Economics and Information Technology, Kulparkivska, 99, 79021 Lviv, Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1058-5359

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