Evidence as the foundation for policy design
Boosting shared prosperity
Need for transformational policies
Alternative notions of poverty and shared prosperity
Challenges posed by uncertainty and downside risk
Monitoring poverty and shared prosperity
Complementary data for tracking poverty and shared prosperity across countries and over time
Concerted effort is needed to improve measurement methods and data Notes
1. Defining and Assessing the Goal of Ending Poverty by 2030
A brief overview of global poverty measurement
Assessment of the global poverty target
Does the ending poverty target become more elusive when nearing success?
Poverty and shared prosperity
2. Understanding Shared Prosperity
The evolution of shared prosperity
Shared prosperity decoded
Tracking shared prosperity in practice
Can boosting shared prosperity help end global poverty?
Key conclusions on shared prosperity
3. The Twin Goals in a Broader Context
Welfare functions with poverty lines
Beyond the poverty line: Social welfare functions that care about everyone
Growth and social welfare
Going global: From country-level to global social welfare functions
Beyond income: Multidimensional social welfare functions
4. Uncertainty, Downside Risk, and the Goals
How uncertainty affects assessment of the goals
Sources of uncertainty about progress toward the goals
Uncertainty and the ability to assess progress toward the goals
5. National Profiles of Poverty and Shared Prosperity, Data, and Methods
Comparable household survey data for effective policy
Large data gaps and new technologies and methods
6. Global Profiles of Poverty and Shared Prosperity Data, and Measurement Issues
Why census data ate needed to count the poor
Purchasing power parity data: A unifying standard for measuring the poor
Measures of inflation and growth to align data to the same year
O.1. Structure of the report
O.2. Global poverty assessment since 1990
O.3. Why measure poverty in terms of income or consumption?
O.4. Frequently asked questions about the World Bank's shared prosperity goal
