“We will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women, and children from the abject and
dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billion of them are …

Most of the literature on poverty measurement concerns income poverty, the most
comprehensive, though technical, treatment being Ravallion (1992). A critique of income …

Book Review Article WDR 2000: Is There a New ‘New Poverty Agenda’? Page 1 Development
Policy Review, 2001, 19 (1): 143-149  Overseas Development Institute, 2001. Published by …

The report under review raises a lot of expectations at the outset. Combating Poverty and
Inequality has been publicized widely as the flagship report from the United Nations …

summary World poverty is an important book offering fresh insights into how to tackle poverty
worldwide. With contributions from leading scholars in the field both internationally and in …

World poverty is an important book offering fresh insights into how to tackle poverty
worldwide. With contributions from leading scholars in the field both internationally and in …

Ending poverty measured by USD 1.25 per day is unlikely to mean the end of the many
overlapping disadvantages faced by poor people, including malnutrition, poor sanitation, a …

A new construction on poverty reduction links the Millennium Development Goals, an
international consensus on how to reduce poverty, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, a …

Poverty is now commonly recognised as a multi‐dimensional concept, but there is less
agreement about whether such recognition matters for poverty reduction policies in practice …

Poverty reduction, as an overarching objective of development, has recently been adopted
as an international development goal (IDG). Using the proportion of people living on less …