Extreme Poverty | The Last 30 Years and the Next 30
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 30/11/2015

Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University, discusses extreme poverty and the possibilities for its eradication. This is an issue that he believes is not adequately addressed when studying, measuring and crafting policy on poverty.
He highlights the differences regarding poverty reduction between developing countries and developed countries. Social protection and transfers, he believes, are some of the dimensions of policy that have played a key role in this area.

0:10 Over the last 30 years: What has happened to the poorest of the poor?
1:41 Poverty reduction policies
2:43 Over the next 30 years: State Capacity

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