Achieving pro-poor growth: new simulations from the World Bank
In 2013, the World Bank adopted two goals: First, reduce global extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. Second, promote shared prosperity defined as the income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population within a country.
On 5th March 2015 Dr Mario Negre from the World Bank will give a lecture at MSM's MEUSE-Institute to discuss a recent paper he co-authored that simulates the global poverty headcount under three growth scenarios for the bottom 40 percent up to 2030. The paper shows that in the baseline growth scenario, the global poverty rate could either reach the 3 percent target, or be close to 10 percent, depending on the extent of shared prosperity premium.
The lecture will take place at 13:30 in Lecture Hall 207, Maastricht School of Management.
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