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The Poverty task force seeks to analyze the effects of economic policies on poverty, and examine alternative policies to promote poverty reduction.
Poverty concerns are intertwined with virtually every aspect of development. Given the breadth of the subject, the task force will focus on specific areas of economic policy: the impact of trade liberalization on the poor; the effect of commodity price volatility on the rural poor who produce export crops; the sequencing of reforms and the areas in which sequencing errors are likely to have a serious poverty impact; and the effect of different institutional frameworks on poverty.
IPD Poverty Task Force Chairs:Augustin Fosu - Director, African Economic Research Consortium, Kenya Sudhir Anand - Professor of Economics, Development Studies, Oxford
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| IPD Book Series: Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty |
| Publication: Edited by Sudhir Anand, Paul Segal, and Joseph E. Stiglitz |
| The international community's commitment to halve global poverty by 2015 has been enshrined in the first Millennium Development Goal. How global poverty is measured is a critical element in assessing progress towards this goal, and different researchers have presented widely-varying estimates. The chapters in this volume address a range of problems in the measurement and estimation of global poverty, from a variety of viewpoints. Topics covered include the controversies surrounding the definition of a global poverty line; the use of purchasing power parity exchange rates to map the poverty line across countries; and the quality, and appropriate use, of data from national accounts and household surveys. Both official and independent estimates of global poverty have proved to be controversial, and this volume presents and analyses the lively debate that has ensued. |
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| Conference on Global Poverty Monitoring |
| Event: Mar 31, 2003 - Apr 02, 2003 |
| The Poverty task force seeks to analyze the effects of economic policies on poverty, and examine alternative policies to promote poverty reduction. |
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| Task Force Books: Poverty |
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| This book will cover issues of poverty measurment, income distribution, raising the standard, and include case studies on China and India. |
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