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Jolliffe Dean <1963-> |
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A measured approach to ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity : concepts, data, and the twin goals / / Dean Jolliffe and Peter Lanjouw |
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Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , [2015] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (pages cm) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Economic development - United States |
Economic development - History |
Developing countries Economic policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Overview; Evidence as the foundation for policy design; Boxes; 0.1 Structure of the report; 0.2 Global poverty assessment since 1990; Figures; B0.2.1 Number of surveys in PovcalNet over time; Ending global poverty; 0.3 Why measure poverty in terms of income or consumption?; 0.1 Global poverty projections are sensitive to underlying growth assumptions; Boosting shared prosperity; 0.4 Frequently asked questions about the World Bank's shared prosperity goal; 0.2 The bottom 40 percent can encompass various income groups across countries |
Need for transformational policies0.3 Shared prosperity has been correlated with average income growth; Alternative notions of poverty and shared prosperity; Challenges posed by uncertainty and downside risk; 0.4 The goals appear more difficult to attain in the context of uncertainty and downside risk; Monitoring poverty and shared prosperity; Complementary data for tracking poverty and shared prosperity across countries and over time; Tables; 0.1 Estimates of the percentage poor in 1993, based on three PPP indexes; Concerted effort is needed to improve measurement methods and data |
0.5 Summary of the report's key recommendationsNotes; References; 1. Defining and Assessing the Goal of Ending Poverty by 2030; A brief overview of global poverty measurement; 1.1 Setting national poverty |
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lines around the world; Assessment of the global poverty target; 1.1 Poverty in 2011 at 1.25 a day 2005 PPP; 1.1 Changing patterns of global poverty, 1981-2030; 1.2 Ending global poverty; 1.3 Alternative One: Projections based on countries' experiences over the past 20 years; 1.4 Alternative Two: Projections based on countries' experiences over the past 10 years; Maps |
1.1 Poverty headcount at 1.25 a day, 20111.2 Poverty headcount at 1.25 a day, 2030; 1.5 Alternative Three: What do household surveys say?; 1.6 Alternative Four: An aspirational scenario; 1.7 Actual and required growth rates in the 10 countries contributing most to poverty in 2011; 1.2 What does it take? Actual and required growth rates to achieve the aspirational scenario; Does the ending poverty target become more elusive when nearing success?; 1.8 Actual and required growth rates in the 10 countries that will remain as principal contributors to global poverty in 2030 |
1.3 Poverty reduction in the developing world, global measures 1980-20101.4 The effect of growth on poverty under the assumption of unchanged inequality; 1.5 Declining sensitivity of poverty reduction would require everincreasing growth; 1.6 The trajectory of future poverty reduction may not be obviously linear; 1.3 Increased spatial concentration of poverty in Vietnam, 1999 and 2009; 1.7 Heterogeneous subnational growth in Vietnam leads to slower national poverty reduction; 1.8 Poverty reduction in countries that have already achieved zero extreme poverty, 1820-2000 |
1.9 Poverty reduction in Thailand, 1981-2010 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 cen |
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