Critique of poverty measurement and MDG-1 tracking of poverty and hunger/undernutrition.
In 2015, the world will celebrate the achievement of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG-1): to halve world poverty by 2015. But this foreseeable achievement crucially depends on how poverty is being measured and tracked. Professor Pogge looks at definitions of poverty and interpretations of what it means to halve poverty by 2015.