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 …

. It is thus about the fundamental issue in economic development: the eradication of poverty from the world. The report … defines poverty in broad terms, to include literacy, nutrition, and health, as well as income. The evidence suggests that … rapid and politically sustainable progress on poverty has been achieved by pursuing a strategy with two equally important …