Finance & Development, December 2000

Finance & Development, December 2000
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Volume/Issue: Volume 0037 Issue 004
Publication date: January 2000
ISBN: 9781451951936
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Summary

This paper describes the need to broaden the agenda for poverty reduction. The broadening of the agenda follows from a growing understanding that poverty is more than low income, a lack of education, and poor health. The poor are frequently powerless to influence the social and economic factors that determine their well being. The paper highlights that a broader definition of poverty requires a broader set of actions to fight it and increases the challenge of measuring poverty and comparing achievement across countries and over time.