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PovertyInternational poverty CentreUnited Nations Development ProgrammeDecember 2006 what is poverty ?Concepts and measures2 United Nations Development ProgrammeThe international development community has had poverty in focus for more thana decade. At summit meetings and other occasions, world leaders have stated andreconfirmed their agreement that poverty must be reduced and eventually political commitment is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for this tohappen. Analysts, policy-makers and practitioners need appropriate concepts anddedicated measures to enable progress from rhetoric and general policy statementsto action and results on the this issue of IPC s journal poverty in Focus we present ten articles intended to throwlight on the question of how best to define and measure Chambers outlines five clusters of meanings and reminds us of the importance ofthe analysis and view
Poverty Line derived from globally standardised and ethically justifiable wellbeing ... definition is much larger than by current measures, and so is the required global income redistribution. Lord Meghnad Desai finds the definitions of absolute poverty static ... Nanak Kakwani proposes a multidimensional poverty concept that is causally linked to
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