A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity

by World Bank Group and World Bank

"In 2013, the World Bank Group adopted two new goals to guide its work: ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. More specifically, the goals are to reduce extreme poverty in the world to less than 3 percent by 2030, and to foster income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population in each country. While poverty reduction has been a mainstay of the World Bank's mission for decades, the Bank has now set a specific goal and timetable,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464803617
• ISBN13: 9781464803611
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"