The ‘Defining Decade’ is a cultural norm which urges young adults to persistently pursue life goals, even at the expense of significantly neglecting immediate desires. As part of this approach, it is common to seek to maximize educational value from most activities, seek more responsibility at work, seek instrumental value from social relationships, and stigmatize idle time.

Launched in 2013 by China to eliminate extreme poverty, China poverty Alleviation program included strategies such as infrastructure, education, healthcare and relocation: Investment in roads, bridges, education and vocational training. It had lifted millions out of poverty by 2020 but its sustainability is still questionable.

Uganda's program for Rural development and poverty reduction known as operation Wealth Creation focuses on farming inputs, training and capacity with aim of increasing agricultural output which is Uganda's major economic activity.

Degrowth is an economic and political ideology that emphasizes the need to remove the government's focus on economic growth and often subsequently replace it with other metrics, e.g. wellbeing, sustainability etc.

African leaders, calling for urgent action by developed countries to reduce carbon emissions, have proposed a new financing mechanism to restructure Africa’s crippling debt and unlock climate funding.

In a call to action, African leaders attending the inaugural Africa Climate Summit held in Nairobi Kenya this week, stressed the importance of decarbonizing the global economy for equality and shared prosperity.