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Income Poverty, MDG1 and the Post‐2015 Agenda: Goals and Targets that Work
Author(s) -
Melamed Claire
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3085
Subject(s) - poverty , incentive , work (physics) , consumption (sociology) , economics , development economics , millennium development goals , economic growth , public economics , political science , sociology , social science , mechanical engineering , engineering , microeconomics
This paper reviews the evidence on income and consumption poverty trends since the 1990s at the level of first countries and then individuals and considers how well the current Millennium Development Goals offer the right incentives and monitoring framework to reflect the trajectories and drivers of progress. It then discusses different proposals for the post‐2015 agenda in the light of recent trends and current thinking. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.