| Resumen: |
In 2013, the World Bank Group announced two overarching goals: the end of chronic extreme poverty by 2030; and the promotion of shared pros-perity, defined in terms of economic growth of the poorest segments of society. The United Nations has also now declared the eradication of poverty by 2030 as a primary development goal. Poverty is, at the same time, stark and conceptually elusive, especially when we try to track it statistically across nations and over time. The World Bank Group has been at the vanguard of developing measures of living standards. It has played a major role in providing and collating data on poverty and inequality, and thereby providing a framework for discourse and policy making. |
