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hoped that the ensuing debate will bring together all those concerned and provide a basis for action to tackle one of the gravest problems facing the world today.

Notes 1. The implications for data handling have been briefly described in “Assessment: Monitoring over Time” in chapter 1 of this Report. 2. For the full press release, see http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release /2015/10/15/world-bank-new-end-poverty-tool-surveys-in-poorest-countries. 3. Just one example is the framework for poverty analysis provided by the Progress out of Poverty Index (Grameen Foundation 2014). 4. See PovcalNet (database), World Bank, Washington, DC, http://iresearch .worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm?1,0.

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Monitoring Global Poverty

Published on Nov 29, 2016

World Bank Group Publications

"In 2013, the World Bank Group announced two goals that would guide its operations worldwide. First is the eradication of chronic extreme poverty bringing the number of extremely poor people, defined as those living on less than 1.25 purchasing power parity (PPP)†“adjusted dollars a day, to less than 3 percent of the world’s population by 2030.The second is the boosting of shared prosperity, defined as promoting the growth of per capita real income of the poorest 40 percent of the population in each country. In 2015, United Nations member nations agreed in New York to a set of post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the first and foremost of which is the eradication of extreme poverty everywhere, in all its forms. Both the language and the spirit of the SDG objective reflect the growing acceptance of the idea that poverty is a multidimensional concept that reflects multiple deprivations in various aspects of well-being. That said, there is much less agreement on