The worst industrial accident in the history of Bangladesh has exposed the scale of internal culture change necessary to validate the World Bank’s new goal to eliminate global poverty by 2030.
Tag: poverty reduction
Lies, damned lies, and African economic statistics
Shanta Devarajan, World Bank Chief Economist for Africa, has exposed the primitive statistical methodology on which African GDP and poverty figures rely. Interpret statements about growth and poverty reduction with a grain of salt, he advises.
Indecent Development
Exceptional levels of remittances from migrant workers may explain an apparently sharp improvement in poverty figures in Nepal. But there is a human price to pay for this model of development.
No value in global poverty guesswork
Publication of the progress report on the UN Millennium Development Goals is the time of year to ask whether momentum for the 2015 targets is really there.
Getting better maybe
Fashionable selections of development success stories should be qualified by the reality that data collection in Africa is slow and unreliable.
Mixed messages out of Africa
Two contrasting narratives on Africa’s fragile economic development will confront heads of state gathering in Turkey for a critical UN conference on the world’s “Least Developed Countries” which starts today.
Good news on Bangladesh poverty, maybe
Long-awaited results of the 2010 household income and expenditure survey are beginning to leak out in the Bangladesh media.
Senegal MDG plan ignores climate change
Senegal’s progress review of its Poverty Reduction Strategy overlooks the risks posed by climate change.
In search of the bottom billion
New research published by the Washington-based Center for Global Development questions whether a core function of the World Bank in supporting poor countries is “heading toward retirement” by 2025.
Adaptation angst in The Gambia
The Gambia may be small country but its National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) includes some interesting perspectives on climate change. Is adaptation really any different from poverty reduction?