Data Deprivation : Another Deprivation to End
The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of “ending extreme poverty.” However, the data needed...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/04/24426058/data-deprivation-another-deprivation-end http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21867 |
| Summary: | The Millennium Development Goal of
halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level
will be achieved in 2015, and the international development
community is now moving to a new goal of “ending extreme
poverty.” However, the data needed to monitor progress
remain severely limited. During the 10 year period between
2002 and 2011, as many as 57 countries have zero or only one
poverty estimate. This paper refers to such lack of poverty
data as “data deprivation,” because the poor are often
socially marginalized and voiceless, and the collection of
objective and quantitative data is crucial in locating them
and formulating policy to help them exit extreme
deprivation. This paper studies the extent of data
deprivation and proposes targets for ending data deprivation
by 2030—the year by when the international community aims to
end extreme poverty. According to the analysis in this
paper, this target is ambitious but possible, and achieving
it is necessary to be able to declare the end of extreme
poverty with confidence. |
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