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Poverty reduction has become a central focus of attention and effort over the last decade: the World Bank has declared it as its major objective, structural adjustment programmes have been transmuted into Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, the nations of the world have committed themselves to halving poverty by 2015, and global civil society has united around the Global Call to Action against Poverty.
However, nef believes that current approaches to poverty raise a number of serious conceptual and analytical issues which have potentially important implications for how we think about poverty and crucially, how we address it.
nef's work on re-thinking poverty aims to tackle some of these issues. The programme of work will begin with analysis that unmasks the relative contributions or growth and distribution to poverty reduction, and move on to challenge current definitions of poverty and the validity of existing poverty statistics.
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