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Two Goals for Fighting Poverty

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Fri, 05/10/2013 - 12:03 -- Martin Ravallion
This is the first in a series of blogs that debate how a post-2015 framework ought to measure poverty - find out more. Martin Ravallion is the Edmond D. Villani Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. Prior to taking up the Villani Chair in December 2012 he was director of the World Bank’s research department.

What’s driving the quiet revolution in basic healthcare?

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Wed, 05/01/2013 - 08:17 -- Romina Rodrígue...
Rarely a day goes by when the news is not filled with both warnings about possible epidemics and more encouraging tales of medical breakthroughs. And yet, while these often extreme perspectives occupy the limelight, more nuanced and in-depth understandings of how and why things are working in certain countries and not in others remains relatively unheard.

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New blog: Monitoring progress on poverty: the case for a high global poverty line
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New blog: Two goals for fighting poverty
Friday 10 May 2013
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Friday 10 May 2013
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Wednesday 1 May 2013
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  • Monitoring progress on poverty: the case for a high global poverty line
    Lant Pritchett
    Thursday 16th May, 2013
    'For some purposes ‘extreme poverty’ is very useful, whereas for others, like measuring progress in middle income countries where ‘extreme poverty’ is very low or focusing on the continued gaps between rich countries and the rest, it is not useful at all...'
  • Two Goals for Fighting Poverty
    Martin Ravallion
    Friday 10th May, 2013
    'I would suggest we think about monitoring two poverty goals going forward: absolute poverty by the $1.25 a day standard and relative poverty by the standards typical of the country one lives in...'

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