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Measuring poverty impact: the monitoring and evaluation of UK and EU aid for trade and private sector development

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It’s not only about the goals

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Wed, 02/06/2013 - 11:38 -- Laura K. Rodrig...
In his annual letter, Bill Gates invokes the power of measurement to drive results, and suggests the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) owed to their coherent focus on a set of issues that aimed to help the world’s poorest people. Considerable debate is now taking place on what a successor framework should focus on.

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  • 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...'
  • 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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