Poverty

At the regional level, allocating aid to tackle per-person poverty means a realignment in development support, mainly away from Africa and towards Asia.

Prioritising poor countries to receive our foreign aid might prevent us from getting it to poor people. As my colleagues Owen Barder and Matt Juden discussed, the latest data shows that although 2014 was a record year for aid spending, there was a significant fall in the share going to least develop...

Last week USAID, the world’s largest aid agency, released its Vision for Ending Extreme Poverty. That’s right, USAID (an agency not usually known for its foresight and strategic acumen) has already put forth its plan on how it intends to reorient the Agency to meet the call to end e...

Global poverty measures are important to public knowledge about the world as a whole, and they help inform the work of development agencies. In a new working paper I discuss three current issues that are specific to global poverty monitoring, and propose some solutions.