The World Bank's vision for eradicating poverty by 2030 ... a good moment to remind us that WB's chairman Mc Namara promised in 1973 to eradicate extreme poverty by the year ... 2000

read the document 'A Common Vision for the World Bank Group'

also read the comments of the International Council for Social Welfare:

For the benefits of growth to trickle down to the poor or the lower income 40 percent of the population designated conduits enabling the sharing of prosperity have to be built. A combination of redistributive policies in the form of progressive taxation and income transfers through social protection systems has to be designed at the national and sub-national levels and have to be implemented through effective fiscal and social governance. A set of other social policies in the form of minimum wage regulations and employment strategies would have to complement such policies. People at the bottom of the income distribution who are trapped in informality, ill health, mental and physical stunting due to nutritional deficiencies, low social status, deficient schooling and non-existent occupational training simply cannot be pulled out of their misery without deliberate redistributive interventions of the state correcting the primary income distribution.