Measuring Global Poverty Right: Mission Impossible?

The international community is committed to millennium development goals which postulate a vision of global development that makes eliminating poverty and sustaining development the overriding objective of global development efforts. In the hierarchy of the MDGs, the first and foremost goal is to re...

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Main Author: Quibria, M. G.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soe_research-18642019-05-01T13:10:58Z Measuring Global Poverty Right: Mission Impossible? Quibria, M. G. The international community is committed to millennium development goals which postulate a vision of global development that makes eliminating poverty and sustaining development the overriding objective of global development efforts. In the hierarchy of the MDGs, the first and foremost goal is to reduce by half, between 1990–2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than a dollar a day (a widely used yardstick to measure extreme poverty). However, estimating such poverty across developing countries and globally is by no means a simple exercise nor has it yielded unambiguous results. This article provides a brief summary of the state of the art in global poverty estimates, including the problems as well as the possible solutions. 2006-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/865 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1864/viewcontent/global_poverty.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Economics eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Income Distribution
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Quibria, M. G.
Measuring Global Poverty Right: Mission Impossible?
description The international community is committed to millennium development goals which postulate a vision of global development that makes eliminating poverty and sustaining development the overriding objective of global development efforts. In the hierarchy of the MDGs, the first and foremost goal is to reduce by half, between 1990–2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than a dollar a day (a widely used yardstick to measure extreme poverty). However, estimating such poverty across developing countries and globally is by no means a simple exercise nor has it yielded unambiguous results. This article provides a brief summary of the state of the art in global poverty estimates, including the problems as well as the possible solutions.
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title Measuring Global Poverty Right: Mission Impossible?
title_short Measuring Global Poverty Right: Mission Impossible?
title_full Measuring Global Poverty Right: Mission Impossible?
title_fullStr Measuring Global Poverty Right: Mission Impossible?
title_full_unstemmed Measuring Global Poverty Right: Mission Impossible?
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2006
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/865
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