As you gather around the dinner table this Thanksgiving to enjoy a warm meal, root for your favorite football team, and perhaps squabble with some well-intentioned family members, consider this:
- As of 2020, some 730 million people were in extreme poverty worldwide.
- 4.7 billion people, or 60 percent of the global population, live below the economic empowerment line—the point in which individuals can meet their essential needs and begin to achieve security.
- Upward of 2.3 billion people worldwide lacked access to adequate food in 2020, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
As you take stock of all you’re grateful for this year, also recognize the work that must be done to secure a sustainable, inclusive, and growing future, for all. “The actions taken (or not) in this decade will determine what kind of world the next generation will inherit,” write McKinsey’s Anu Madgavkar, Sven Smit, Mekala Krishnan, Jonathan Woetzel, Kweilin Ellingrud, and Tracy Francis in a recent report from the McKinsey Global Institute. Check out these insights on how the world can make progress toward empowerment, net zero, inclusive growth, and food security.
From poverty to empowerment: Raising the bar for sustainable and inclusive growth
Rural rising: Economic development strategies for America’s heartland
US manufacturing: The next frontier for sustainable, inclusive growth
Saving Southeast Asia’s crops: Four key steps toward food security
How healthcare payers can expand nutrition support for the food insecure