Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015 : Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

World Bank.

Contributor:

World Bank Group.

International Monetary Fund.

Series:

Global Monitoring Report

World Bank e-Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Developing countries.

Poverty.

Developing countries--Economic policy.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, with substantive inputs from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and promoting shared prosperity and assesses the state of policies and institutions that are important for achieving them. The report continues to monitor progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Also for the first time, the report includes information about high-income countries. It finds that while gaps in living standards have been closing in many countries, the well-being of households in the bottom 40 percent, as measured by the non-income MDGs such as access to education and health services, remains below that of households in the top 60 percent. The focus of this year's report is on three elements needed to make growth more inclusive and sustainable: investment in human capital that favors the poor, the best use of safety nets, and steps to ensure the environmental sustainability of economic growth. These three elements are imperative to all countries' development strategies, and are also fundamental to global efforts to achieve the twin goals, the MDGs, and the Sustainable Development Goals that will succeed the MDGs. Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015 was prepared in collaboration with regional development banks and other multilateral partners.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Summary Infographic; Overview; FIGURES; 0.1 Global and regional poverty rate estimates for 1990, 2011, and 2030; 0.2 Growth of per capita income/consumption of the bottom 40 percent exceeded the country average in most economies, 2002-12 (2005 ppp); Report Card: The World Bank Group Twin Goals & The Millennium Development Goals, 2014/2015; 1 Poverty has been steadily declining; TABLES; 1 Extreme poverty by region; 2 Top 10 countries with largest share of the global extreme poor, 2011

3 Leading five contributors to poverty reduction from 2008 to 2014 Countries where 40 percent or more of the population is extremely poor; 5 World poverty scenarios for 2030 vary with different growth rate assumptions; 6 Evolution of mean income or consumption of the bottom 40 percent and the overall population in four countries; 7 The bottom 40 percent can encompass various income groups across countries; 8 Shared prosperity by country; 9 Shared prosperity example

10 The prevalence of underweight children in low-income countries is significantly higher among the bottom 40 percent than among the top 60 percent 11 Access to improved sanitation for people in the bottom 40 percent is significantly worse than the rates in the top 60 percent; 12 Global progress toward achieving the MDGs has been uneven; 13 Extent of progress toward achieving the MDGs, by number of countries; 1 Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity; BOXES; 1.1 Successful growth strategies have five common characteristics; B1.1 Common characteristics of high sustained growth

1.1 Decrease in headcount poverty caused by 1 percent increase in household's income/consumption, 2010 1.2 Fragility and violence: A threat to progress toward the twin goals; 1.3 Factors that shape labor demand; 1.2 Decomposition of changes in moderate poverty, by income level, in selected developing countries, 2000's; 1.3 In Sub-Saharan Africa, natural resource generated high growth but not jobs; 1.4 Gender equality helps to make growth more inclusive; 1.5 Fiscal policy and its potential impact on growth and shared prosperity

1.4 Natural resource rents and natural capital depletion can be significant in resource-rich developing countries 2 Global Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook; 2.1 Global output; 2.1 GDP per capita growth; 2.2 Global current account imbalances; 2.2 General government revenue excluding grants; 2.3 Net financial flows; 2.3 Commodity price indexes; 2.4 Changes in commodity prices and changes in GDP per capita, terms of trade, and inflation in emerging markets and developing countries; 2.5 Low-income developing countries-imports, exports, and current account balance including FDI

2.6 Official reserves

Notes:

"A World Bank Group Flagship Report"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4648-0337-4

Publisher Number:

10.1596/978-1-4648-0336-9