Anmerkungen:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments April 26, 2012 erstellt
Beschreibung:
A recent "Update" from the World Bank has caused widespread media celebrations of "drastic" progress against poverty in the 2005-10 period. But no such progress is visible in the data on undernutrition provided by the FAO. This paper discusses the discrepancy and, more broadly, better ways of tracking poverty (than the World Bank's money-metric headcounts) and more plausible poverty goals (than the soon-to-expire MDGs)