WASHINGTON, DC – The World Bank has set two new goals for itself: ending extreme and chronic poverty in the world by 2030, and promoting shared prosperity, defined in terms of progress of the poorest 40% of the population in each society. Now that the United Nations General Assembly Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals has endorsed the Bank’s anti-poverty target, debate about how to achieve it has revived an old question: Will the benefits of economic growth trickle down on their own, reaching all, or will we need targeted redistributive policies?
华盛顿—世界银行给自己制定了两个新目标：2030年终结全世界的极端和长期贫困，并促进共同繁荣——衡量标准是各个社会最贫困40%人群的改善。联合国大会可持续发展目标开放工作组（Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals）支持世行的减贫目标，而关于如何实现的争论让我们重新面对了一个老问题：经济增长的好处会自动向下流动、触及所有人，还是需要定向的分配政策？