Some years ago a consensus emerged in the development community on the idea of an international poverty line of around $1 a day at purchasing power parity. This became the focus of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which calls for halving the 1990 $1 a day poverty rate by 2015. In a...

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In ?One Pager? No. 65, Sanjay Reddy says the World Bank is ?digging (itself) deeper into a hole? in measuring global poverty. It seems we are in this hole (in Reddy?s eyes) because we have not adopted his preferred method; I have tried to explain why we have not done so in past responses to Reddy...

The government of a rich country will be disinclined to give its aid to a country that has internal capacity to tackle poverty through redistribution from people at a similar standard of living to taxpayers in that rich country. Yet we do not have tools for measuring the capacity for...