The Poor Pay More – The Economic Cost of the Climate Crisis

This report synthesises findings from the “Evaluation of Sida’s Work with Poverty”, conducted between August 2023 and June 2026. The evaluation assesses how evidence is generated and used within Sida’s contribution management, and how this shapes the agency’s ability to achieve and demonstrate development impact.

Sida’s work is grounded in a Multidimensional Poverty Approach (MDPA), recognising poverty as encompassing deprivations in resources, power and voice, opportunities and choice, and human security. Within this overall framework the valuation addresses a central question: how Sida can improve its effectiveness in contributing to sustainable poverty
reduction.

The evidence we focus on here relates to effectiveness, cost-effectiveness/efficiency and
on “what works”, and less on “what to do” (e.g. relevance, composition of portfolio etc.).

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The main report and the annexes will be published at a later date.

The aim of this Development Economics Brief is to take a closer look at remittances, with a focus on inflow of remittances to Sida partner countries. It introduces key concepts, overall trends, explores links to poverty reduction, presents and analyses data from relevant geographical contexts, and finally concludes on some of the main challenges, possible ways forward and the potential role of development cooperation. This can inform Sida’s and other development organsiations work with remittances, as one of the most important, and perhaps less explored, financial flows for poverty reduction.