If we want to end poverty, we need to be able to measure it properly | Global development | The Guardian

If we want to end poverty, we need to be able to measure it properly | Global development | The Guardian: "In three months, the UN looks set to adopt 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) that will guide the international community’s efforts to tackle global poverty, inequality and climate change over the next 15 years.

After years of negotiations among policymakers, NGOs and academics , a zero draft of the SDGs is now under discussion. But how will we know if we advance towards achieving these targets? What should be the indicators of progress?

The draft goals call for an end to poverty “in all its forms everywhere” and set the target of reducing “at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions”. But how do countries measure the multidimensional nature of poverty and track progress towards reducing it?

Multidimensional poverty measurement has been rapidly evolving over the past five years, both at the national and international level."



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