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Data and Measurement Essential to Reaching the World Bank’s Twin Goals
This October the World Bank’s research department released a Policy Research Report entitled “A Measured Approach to Ending Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity: Concepts, Data, and the Twin Goals .” Prepared by a team led by Peter Lanjouw and Dean Jolliffe, economists in the research department, the report makes the case that campaigning around the World Bank Group’s twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity requires an understanding of the theory and accompanying measurement challenges of the goals.The World Bank hosted two events at its headquarters to highlight the report’s findings and facilitate a dialogue around the World Bank’s twin goals: first a Policy Research Talk in which Peter Lanjouw discussed the report in depth…
Meetings. Date: November 6, 2014