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Mark Roper

Why Ending Extreme Poverty Isn't Good Enough - Businessweek - 0 views

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poverty and inequality research

shared by Mark Roper on 29 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • At this year’s spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF, the world’s global finance ministers signed up to an ambitious target for progress against poverty. “We believe that we have a historic opportunity to end extreme poverty within a generation,”
  • As recently as 1990, more than two-fifths of the population of the developing world lived in extreme poverty, and even today, the proportion remains close to one-fifth.
Mark Roper

Poverty: Growth or safety net? | The Economist - 0 views

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poverty and inequality economist poverty

shared by Mark Roper on 27 Sep 13 - No Cached
    • Mark Roper
      Mark Roper on 28 Oct 13
       
      This is interesting because...
  • Yet as Nepal shows, cutting poverty is not just about boosting incomes.
  • MPI, or multidimensional poverty index
    • Mark Roper
      Mark Roper on 28 Oct 13
       
      We need to find this out - I think it is a measure of poverty.  Can we use it to compare countries?
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  • Emma Samman of ODI says, “It is not clear that the $1.25-a-day poverty line, the measure upon which this vision of a poverty-free world exists, is necessarily the best way to think about and measure poverty
  • multidimensional poverty index
    • Mark Roper
      Mark Roper on 28 Oct 13
       
      What is this?  Can it be used to compare countries?
  • 2006 Nepal has seen the largest falls in poverty,
  • Between 1990 and 2010 the proportion of the population living on less than $1.25 a day in developing countries halved to 21%, or 1.2 billion people (see chart)
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