Timothy Besley|Robin Burgess
Halving Global Poverty
London School of Economics and Political Science|London School of Economics and Political Science
millennium development goalsglobal targets worlds leaders set millennium summit september 2000are ambitious agenda reducing poverty central plank goals include halving proportion people living dollar day around 30 percent developing worlds population 1990 15 percent 2015a reduction absolute number poor around one billion paper examines economic research tell us fulfill goals begins discussing poverty trends global scalewhere poor located world numbers changing time discusses relationship economic growth income distribution poverty reduction finally suggests evidencebased agenda poverty reduction developing world