The government of a rich country will be disinclined to give its aid to a country that has internal capacity to tackle poverty through redistribution from people at a similar standard of living to taxpayers in that rich country. Yet we do not have tools for measuring the capacity for...

Hace algunos años surgió un consenso en la comunidad del desarrollo sobre la idea de una línea internacional de pobreza de aproximadamente 1 dólar al día a la paridad del poder adquisitivo. Esto se convirtió en el tema central del primer Objetivo de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM), el cual...

Some years ago a consensus emerged in the development community on the idea of an international poverty line of around $1 a day at purchasing power parity. This became the focus of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which calls for halving the 1990 $1 a day poverty rate by 2015. In a...

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In ?One Pager? No. 65, Sanjay Reddy says the World Bank is ?digging (itself) deeper into a hole? in measuring global poverty. It seems we are in this hole (in Reddy?s eyes) because we have not adopted his preferred method; I have tried to explain why we have not done so in past responses to Reddy...

Há alguns anos um consenso surgiu na comunidade em desenvolvimento acerca da idéia de uma linha da pobreza internacional por volta de 1 dólar diário com base na paridade do poder de compra. Este se tornou o foco do primeiro Objetivo de Desenvolvimento para o Milênio (ODM), que estabele a...