, encompassing employment, innovation, education, poverty and social inclusion, and climate/energy. An overarching goal of the Europe … each of the EU Member States. The European council used three measures of poverty and social exclusion: at risk of poverty … rate, a measure of relative poverty defined as the percent of the population with incomes less than 60 percent of the …

PROGRESA poverty alleviation program to examine the performance of a quasi-experimental estimator, the regression discontinuity … noneligible households in the control localities. This paper--a product of the Poverty and Gender Unit, Latin America and the … Caribbean Region--is part of a larger effort in the region to develop and apply rigorous methods in the evaluation of poverty …

accelerate trade integration and growth, and to reduce poverty. Each part of the report focuses on a key question and provides an … poverty reduction using two types of macroeconomic models. The report concludes with policy priorities for accelerating …

The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …