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More than half of the time period to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has passed and much effort has been undertaken to achieve the goals by 2015. However, the latest progress report towards the MDGs shows that progress is often very slow and, more worrisome, in some countries there have been reverses, particularly among the poor (UN 2005). This leads to a crucial question concerning the progress made so far: how is the progress towards the MDGs distributed within a country? Have the very poor benefited disproportionately compared with the less-poor or even the non-poor from improvements in reducing both the income and non-income dimension of poverty? To reach the MDGs, it will be critical that both the development path and the policies to accomplish the goals are pro-poor (UN 2003). Thus these questions have to be considered when monitoring progress towards the MDGs.
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Grosse, M., Harttgen, K., Klasen, S. (2008). Measuring Pro-Poor Progress Towards the Non-Income Millennium Development Goals. In: McGillivray, M. (eds) Achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Studies in Development Economics and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594937_5
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