UGP: Unified Global Poverty: An Absolute and Relative Cost of Basic Needs Framework

消除贫困是联合国可持续发展目标的旗舰。然而，全球绝对贫穷的官方估计数是根据世界银行标准的每日1美元办法计算的，这种办法福尔斯达不到衡量绝对贫穷的主要目标：追踪不同时间和不同国家的恒定生活水平。世界银行全球贫困问题委员会含蓄地认识到这一缺陷，建议采用基本需求成本方法，该方法不受标准方法缺陷的影响。（一）* 通过在全球范围内实施国际上已批准并在联合国哥本哈根会议上说明的绝对贫穷定义，编制全球贫穷统计数据宣言（连同参考膳食、针对人口的营养指标、误差计算微观模拟和线性规划等方法组成部分，并通过汇编2000-2020年全球价格系列）;（B）在这一框架内统一贫穷的绝对和相对方面，从而避免经济发达程度较高和经济欠发达国家之间的方法不连续;（c）最大限度地发挥全球贫穷统计的政策相关性：对全球贫穷的估计影响到（国际）国家援助机构的优先事项，这项研究有很大潜力更好地指导它们的供资决定，从而帮助改善数百万人的生活。在2030年可持续发展目标的最后期限之前制定这一衡量框架，并与联合国极端贫困和人权问题特别报告员一起进行跨部门借调，对于最大限度地发挥其影响至关重要。

Poverty eradication is the flagship of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, official global absolute poverty estimates are based on the standard World Bank dollar-a-day approach, which falls short in the prime objective of absolute poverty measurement: tracking a constant standard of living over time and across countries. The World Bank's Commission on Global Poverty -implicitly recognizing this shortcoming- recommends the Cost of Basic Needs method, which is immune to the drawback of the standard approach.The objectives of the Unified Global Poverty project are to: (a) produce global poverty statistics via the operationalization on a global scale of an absolute poverty definition that is already internationally ratified and described in the United Nations Copenhagen Declaration (together with methodological components such as reference diets, population tailored nutritional targets, error-accounting microsimulations and linear programming, and by assembling global price series, 2000-2020); (b) unify the absolute and relative aspects of poverty within that framework, thereby avoiding the methodological discontinuity between more and less economically developed countries; (c) maximize policy relevance of global poverty statistics.Estimates of global poverty influence the priorities of (inter)national aid agencies and this research has substantial potential to better guide their funding decisions, consequently helping to improve the lives of millions. Developing this measurement framework well in advance of the Sustainable Development Goals deadline in 2030, and in combination with an intersectoral secondment alongside the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, will be crucial to maximize its impact.