World Bank’s Commission on Global Poverty: LISER a core group member

Eric MARLIER, International Scientific Coordinator at LISER, had the great pleasure of being a core group member of the Commission on Global Poverty

Eric MARLIER, International Scientific Coordinator at LISER, had the great pleasure of being a core group member of the Commission on Global Poverty.

This Commission was set up by the World Bank in 2015. It consisted of 24 members from around the world (8 Core Group members and 16 Advisory Board members, including two Nobel Prizes) and was chaired by Sir Tony Atkinson. It has just released its major Report on “Monitoring Global Poverty” (on 18 October).
 
The purpose of the Commission Report* is "to improve the way the World Bank monitors poverty. By focusing on changes over time, we can learn, taking account of the potential margins of error, about the evolution of global poverty. The confidence to be placed in these conclusions can be increased by improvements in the methods of analysis and in the underlying data. Outside the World Bank, it is hoped that this report will be of value to everyone engaged in poverty measurement across the world, and be a highly positive force in encouraging partnerships" –said Sir Tony Atkinson.
 
The Report includes a set of 21 recommendations on how to more comprehensively measure and monitor global poverty in support of the Bank Group’s goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 (i.e. bringing the number of people living on less than $1.90 dollars a day [in 2011 Purchasing Power Parity] to less than 3% of the world population by 2030) and boosting shared prosperity (i.e. promoting the growth of per capita real income of the poorest 40% of the population in each country).

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Eric Marlier joined LISER in 2002. Since 1988, he has done a lot of comparative research for various international bodies - European Commission, United Nations, OECD and World Bank. Eric has been coordinating the European “Network for the analysis of EU-SILC” (Net-SILC) since 2008. He is currently also managing the “European Social Policy Network”, with teams of experts in 35 European countries. 

Eric has written widely on the development of social indicators and their use in the policy process (at national, EU and global levels), on international social monitoring, and on comparative socio-economic analysis (esp. on income, poverty, inequality and living conditions). He is inter alia the author of “Social Indicators: The EU and Social Inclusion” (OUP, 2002) and “The EU and Social Inclusion: Facing the Challenges” (The Policy Press, 2007), both with Tony Atkinson, Bea Cantillon and Brian Nolan. He is a member of various European Task-Forces and Working Groups covering international social monitoring and social statistics issues.

* World Bank. 2017. Monitoring Global Poverty: Report of the Commission on Global Poverty. Washington, DC: World Bank. doi: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0961-3.License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO