With such a flawed system shaping the world’s understanding of poverty, declarations of success or failure carry little meaning. An improved poverty indicator – one that addresses, rather than avoids, the three major problems plaguing global estimates – is urgently needed.
世界对贫困的认识基于缺陷如此之大的系统，宣布减贫成功或是失败根本毫无意义。改良贫困指标，使其能够纠正而不是避免破坏全球估计的三大问题是极为紧迫的任务。