Monitoring Global Poverty: Report of the Commission on Global Poverty

doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-0961-3

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Monitoring Global Poverty: Report of the Commission on Global Poverty

dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2016-10-13T15:38:59Z
dc.date.available	2016-10-13T15:38:59Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.description.abstract	In 2013, the World Bank Group announced two goals that would guide its operations worldwide. The first is the eradication of chronic extreme poverty -- bringing the number of extremely poor people, defined as those living on less than 1.25 ppp-adjusted dollars a day, to less than 3% of the world population by 2030. The second is the boosting of shared prosperity, defined as promoting the growth of per capita real income of the poorest 40% of the population in each country. Last year, UN member nations agreed in New York to a set of post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the first and foremost of which is the eradication of extreme poverty everywhere, in all its forms. Both the language and the spirit of the SDG objective reflect the growing acceptance of the idea that poverty is a multi-dimensional concept that reflects multiple deprivations in various aspects of well-being. That said, there is much less agreement on the best ways in which those deprivations should be measured; and on whether or how information on them should be aggregated. This report advises the Bank on the measurement and monitoring of global poverty on two areas: • What should be the interpretation of the definition of extreme poverty, set in 2015 in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)-adjusted dollars a day per person? • What choices should the World Bank make regarding complementary monetary and non-monetary poverty measures to be tracked and made available to policy-makers? The World Bank plays an important role in shaping the global debate on combatting poverty, and the indicators and data the Bank collates and makes available shape opinion and actual policies in client countries, and, to a certain extent, in all countries. How we answer the above questions can therefore have a major influence on the global economy.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-0961-3
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0961-3
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4648-0961-3
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/25141
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject	POVERTY MONITORING
dc.subject	POVERTY LINE
dc.subject	POVERTY DATA
dc.subject	HOUSE HOLD SURVEY
dc.subject	MEASURING GLOBAL POVERTY
dc.subject	MULTI DIMENTIONAL POVERTY
dc.subject	POVERTY ESTIMATES
dc.subject	MONETARY POVERTY MEASURES
dc.subject	NATIONAL POVERTY ESTIMATES
dc.subject	MARGIN OF ERROR
dc.subject	NON-MONETARY MEASURES
dc.subject	Atkinson Report
dc.title	Monitoring Global Poverty	en
dc.title.subtitle	Report of the Commission on Global Poverty	en
dc.type	Book	en
dc.type	Livre	fr
dc.type	Libro	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Monitoring Global Poverty: Report of the Commission on Global Poverty
okr.date.disclosure	2016-10-18
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Publication
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/978-1-4648-0961-3
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	210961
okr.identifier.report	110040
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.topic	World Bank
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Living Standards
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Lines
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Monitoring & Analysis
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Poverty Reduction Strategies
okr.unit	DECVP