New development goals: What is poverty?

One of the concrete inputs of the Norwegian consultation on new development goals (posted yesterday) was that there is a need of a new way of measuring poverty. That is beyond measuring poverty only by whether a person lives for less/more than 1,25 $ a day. CAFOD policy team gives us an excellent overview of the poverty debate in the UN on their blog:

http://cafodpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/do-we-need-the-multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi-for-post-2015/