Authors: Laurence Chandy, Hiroshi Kato, Homi Kharas
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-20 - Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Viewed from a global scale, steady progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty—defined by the $1.25-a-day poverty line—over the past three decades. This success has sparked renewed enthusiasm about the possibility of eradicating extreme poverty within a generation. However, progress is expected to become more difficult, and slower, over