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Este libro hace varias contribuciones importantes a la bibliografía de la medición de la pobreza y la política pública. Primero, es una relación de un capítulo fundamental de la historia política y económica de México--el proceso de adopción e implantación de la metodología oficial de la pobreza en México--, que aporta pruebas documentales de un enfoque progresista y práctico para la elaboración de políticas. Segundo, es una rica fuente de información respecto a los problemas conceptuales de la medición de la pobreza y los obstáculos prácticos para la aplicación de una metodología en el México del siglo XXI. Tercero, proporciona un marco o una guía para otros países que deseen seguir la vía de México hacia una transparencia mayor en la elaboración de políticas y una mayor responsabilidad gubernamental. Por último, el volumen mismo es una manifestación de este espíritu de transparencia, y su existencia misma hace una contribución importante hacia esta meta.

No generally accepted framework exists for constructing and evaluating measures of corruption. This article shows how the axiomatic approach of the poverty and inequality literature can be applied to the measurement of corruption. A conceptual framework for organizing corruption data is developed, and three aggregate corruption measures consistent with axiomatic requirements are proposed. The article also provides guidelines for empirical applications of corruption measures and discusses data requirements. A brief empirical example illustrates how each of the measures captures a distinct view of corruption that yields a different ranking. To the authors' knowledge, this article provides the first analysis of corruption measurement using an axiomatic framework.

With 2015 marking the transition from the Millennium to the Sustainable Development Goals, the international community can celebrate many development successes since 2000. Three key challenges stand out: the depth of remaining poverty, the unevenness in shared prosperity, and the persistent disparities in non-income dimensions of development. First, the policy discourse needs to focus more directly on the poorest among the poor. While pockets of ultra-poverty exist around the world, Sub-Saharan Africa is home to most of the deeply poor. To make depth a more central element in policy formulation, easy-to-communicate measures are needed, and this note attempts a step in this direction with person-equivalent measures of poverty. Second, the eradication of poverty in all of its forms requires steady growth of the incomes of the bottom 40 percent. Yet, economic growth, a key driver of shared prosperity, may not be as buoyant as before the global financial crisis. Third, unequal progress in non-income dimensions of development requires addressing widespread inequality of opportunity, which transmits poverty across generations and erodes the pace and sustainability of progress for the bottom 40. To meet these challenges, three ingredients are core to the policy agenda: sustaining broad-based growth, investing in human development, and insuring the poor and vulnerable against emerging risks.