Demonstrate An Understanding Of The World Bank’s International Poverty Line: Geography Assignment, TCD, Ireland

Question 1 – demonstrate an understanding of the World Bank’s International Poverty Line (IPL) and comment on the virtues and vices of using this IPL to track the efficacy of poverty eradication measures(worth 20% of the marks for this assignment).

Question 2 – interpret TWO Line Graphs showing the poverty headcount and the total number of people in the world living in poverty at the World Bank’s US$1.90, US$3.20 a day, and US$5.50 a day IPLs between 1981 and 2019, commenting therein on the progress which is being made towards poverty eradication(worth 20% of the marks for this assignment).

Question 3 – use Microsoft Excel to produce TWO Line Graphs showing the poverty headcount and the number of people living in poverty at the World Bank’s US$1.90 a day IPL between 1981 and 2019 in Mexico, China, India, Nigeria, and South Africa AND compare and contrast the progress which is being made in poverty eradication in each country(worth 30% of the marks for this assignment).

Question 4–read United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston’s 2020 report titled: The Parlous State of Poverty Eradication’ and answer a number of questions about this report (worth 30% of the final mark for this assignment).