Measuring Poverty
Published By: Princeton University | Published Date: July , 2004The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted in 2000 a set of “Millennium Development Goals” the first of which is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, more specifically to “reduce by half, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day.” How do we know who is poor and who is not? Is poverty the same as hunger? What is the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction? How will we know whether the Millennium Development Goal has been met, or whether world poverty is falling at all? This essay addresses some of these questions.
Author(s): Angus Deaton | Posted on: Oct 13, 2015 | Views()