The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets

The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets

Adopted on September 8, 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration stated as its first goal that countries "...[further] resolve to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a...

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Main Authors:	Allwine, Melanie, Rigolini, Jamele, López-Calva, Luis F.
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ANNUAL % CHANGE ANNUAL CHANGE AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE MONTHLY PER CAPITA INCOME CARIBBEAN REGION CHANGES IN POVERTY COUNTERFACTUAL DAILY INCOME DATA AVAILABILITY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY DISTRIBUTION EFFECT DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGE ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE EXTREME POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY LINE FOOD POLICY GINI COEFFICIENT GROWTH ELASTICITY GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH RATES HEAD COUNT RATIO HEADCOUNT RATIO HIGH POVERTY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS IMPACT ON POVERTY REDUCTION INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INEQUALITY INEQUALITY CONSTANT INEQUALITY LEVELS LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION LONG RUN MEAN EXPENDITURES MEAN INCOME MEAN INCOME GROWTH ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION PER CAPITA INCOME PERFORMANCE INDICATORS POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR COUNTRIES POVERTY CHANGE POVERTY CHANGES POVERTY EFFECTS POVERTY GAP POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION EFFORTS POVERTY REDUCTION TARGETS REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL AVERAGES REGIONAL POVERTY RESOURCE ALLOCATION STANDARD DEVIATION SUSTAINABLE POVERTY SUSTAINABLE POVERTY REDUCTION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/02/17288977/unfairness-poverty-targets http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13159

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/02/17288977/unfairness-poverty-targets
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13159

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