Twinning the Goals : How Can Promoting Shared Prosperity Help to Reduce Global Poverty?

In 2013, the World Bank adopted two goals: First, reduce global extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. Second, promote shared prosperity defined as the income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population within a country. This paper simulates t...

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Main Authors: Lakner, Christoph, Negre, Mario, Prydz, Espen Beer
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2014
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/11/20377179/twinning-goals-can-promoting-shared-prosperity-help-reduce-global-poverty
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20611