Is Extreme Poverty Going to End? An Analytical Framework to Evaluate Progress in Ending Extreme Poverty

The World Bank has recently adopted a target of reducing the proportion of population living below US$1.25 a day at 2005 international prices to 3 percent by 2030. This paper reviews different projection methods and estimates the global poverty rat...

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Main Authors: Yoshida, Nobuo, Uematsu, Hiroki, Sobrado, Carlos E.
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/18756975/extreme-poverty-going-end-analytical-framework-evaluate-progress-ending-extreme-poverty
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16811