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trends sharply contrast countries on their way to meeting the goals and those in a poverty trap. Crisis proportions have been …
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the carbon emissions of the world's poorest. This paper instead focuses on economic growth as the driver of poverty … justification for reducing the world's climate ambitions. When trade-offs exist, the eradication of extreme poverty can be ….85 upper-middle-income poverty line. The challenge to align the world's development and climate objectives is not in …
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I consider two issues concerning how to monitor global poverty for the Millennium Development Goals, the selection of … poverty lines, and the data sources for monitoring poverty over time. I discuss the choice of a single international line …, converted using purchasing power parity exchange rates, versus the use of country-specific poverty lines. I note the …
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Introduction -- International organisations and the challenge of global poverty -- Ethics, human rights and global … justice -- UNDP : the human development paradigm -- The World Bank : the internal dynamics of a complex organization -- UNESCO … : poverty as a violation of human rights -- The Inter-American Development Bank : social capital, ethics and development …
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for a new international aid architecture. Turkey has become a world leader in humanitarian assistance and shared an …1. Introduction -- 2. Sub-Saharan Africa: Understanding the ongoing poverty -- 3. The international aid architecture …
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This paper makes new estimates of the cost of ending poverty and the global distribution of both the cost and poverty … itself. First, the paper discusses definitions of 'ending' poverty, arguing that there is an overemphasis (e.g. SDG 1) on the … extreme poverty line which is insufficient for multiple reasons. Second, we turn to the question of the location of global …
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