A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity : Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals

doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-0361-1

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A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity : Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals

dc.contributor.author	World Bank Group
dc.date.accessioned	2014-10-07T15:05:59Z
dc.date.available	2014-10-07T15:05:59Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	In 2013, the World Bank Group adopted two new goals to guide its work: ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. More specifically, the goals are to reduce extreme poverty in the world to less than 3 percent by 2030, and to foster income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population in each country. While poverty reduction has been a mainstay of the World Bank’s mission for decades, the Bank has now set a specific goal and timetable, and for the first time, the Bank has explicitly included a goal linked to ensuring that growth is shared by all. The discussion until now has centered primarily on articulating the new goals. This report, the latest in World Bank’s Policy Research Report series, goes beyond that and lays out their conceptual underpinnings, discusses their relative strengths and weaknesses by contrasting them with alternative indicators, and proposes empirical approaches and requirements to track progress towards the goals. The report makes clear that the challenges posed by the World Bank Group’s new stance extend not just to the pursuit of these goals but, indeed, to their very definition and empirical content. The report also argues that an improved data infrastructure, consisting of many elements including the collection of more and better survey data, is critical to ensure that progress towards these goals can be measured, and policies to help achieve them can be identified and prioritized.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-0361-1
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4648-0361-1
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/20384
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Policy Research Report;
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	household surveys
dc.subject	inequality
dc.subject	poverty measurement
dc.subject	shared prosperity
dc.subject	sustainability
dc.title	A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity : Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals	en
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2014-10-08
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Publication
okr.globalpractice	Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpractice	Poverty
okr.guid	197121468337164983
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-0361-1
okr.identifier.report	91350
okr.language.supported	en
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth::Development Economics & Aid Effectiveness
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Achieving Shared Growth
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Development Patterns and Poverty
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Reduction Strategies
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Pro-Poor Growth
okr.unit	Poverty and Inequality Team, Development Research Group (DECPI)