Reducing poverty and improving social conditions in the developing world is central to the World Bank's mission. But just how difficult is this task, and how attainable are the goals that have been set? In this paper, the authors seek answers to these questions. Empirically assessing two important goals-halving the incidence of poverty and reducing child mortality by two-thirds (both by 2015), they find that the evidence is mixed. Some countries appear...
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1998/01/01
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31090
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2010/07/01
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Are poverty reduction and other 21st century social goals attainable?
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annual per capita growth rate