The World Bank is Getting ‘Shared Prosperity’ Wrong: The Bank Should Measure the Tails, Not the Average

V. Nicholas Galasso

Global Policy, 2015, vol. 6, issue 3, 321-324

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Comparing the tails should become an important marker for assessing shared prosperity, particularly in countries with the highest shares of the world's extreme poor.

Date: 2015
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