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

World Bank Group
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Dean Jolliffe, Christian Johannes Meyer and Mario Negre

No 20384 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

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.

Keywords: Macroeconomics; and; Economic; Growth-Development; Economics; &; Aid; Effectiveness; Poverty; Reduction-Achieving; Shared; Growth; Poverty; Reduction-Development; Patterns; and; Poverty; Poverty; Reduction-Poverty; Reduction; Strategies; Poverty; Reduction-Pro-Poor; Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4648-0361-1
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