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This is the final published version of a working paper that has been published in its final definitive form by Center for Global Development, 2015.
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This paper considers the effectiveness and efficiency of global growth, as a route to poverty reduction, since 1990 and then demonstrates the redistributive challenges implicit in various poverty lines and scenarios: the significance being that this historical data can inform understanding and appreciation of what it would involve to end global poverty in the future. We find that a very modest redistribution of global growth could have ended poverty already at the lowest poverty lines. However, higher, but arguably more reasonable, poverty lines present radically different challenges to the current workings of national economic systems and to global (normative) obligations
Author(s): Edward P, Sumner A
Publication type: Working Paper
Publication status: Published
Journal: Center for Global Development Working Papers
Year: 2015
Pages: 32
Publisher: Center for Global Development
URL: http://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/Edward_Sumner_End_Global_Poverty_wp413.pdf