Reducing poverty sustainably, in a carbon-constrained future
The World Bank's press release on May 20 on the launch of the Commission on Growth and Development's report quoted the Commission's chairperson, Mike Spence as saying that the report "kills off once and for all the misguided notion that you can lift people out of poverty in the absence of growth". One might suppose that the report analyses the links between growth and poverty. It does not. (Comment)