Poverty and Sustainable Development in Africa: Its Implications to Sub-Sahara Countries

The study focuses on the linkage between poverty and sustainable development and its implications for Sub-Saharan countries. It examines the interplay between poverty, climate change, and sustainable development in the areas of causes, synergies, trade-offs, and adaptations. Finally, it offers insights into possible pathways to poverty mitigation options for Africa and moves her into the path of poverty sustainable development goal. The study is qualitative. All reviewed works of literature revealed that climate change, population growth, poor policy structures and institutional setting, poor savings, poor rural community libraries, and inequality in resource distributions, amongst others, are poverty panaceas in Africa. The implications of this paper are that it showcased the necessity for governments and the international community to take both proactive and reactive steps towards reducing poverty, which is now a major hindrance to the implementation of SDGs. Another implication is that the study provides a reference for less developed regions to make reasonable and integrated arrangements for their sustainable development. The paper concluded that there is an urgent need by government at all levels to integrate these factors into sustainable development, thereby moving toward the goal of sustainable development for poverty. Summarily, the study recommended that African leaders should stop paying lip service to sustainable development implementation. They should increase expenditure on social services and amenities, and the international community should be genuine in their international assistance to Africa.