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...