BASIC CAPABILITIES INDEX (BCI)
Social Watch developed the BCI as an instrument to monitor the evolution of basic indicators and make comparisons between and within countries. This is a summary-index that compares and classifies countries according to their progress in social development by evaluating their situation in terms of minimum basic capabilities – structural dimensions that represent the indispensable starting conditions to guarantee an adequate quality of life.
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World trade and per capita income grew faster in the first decade of the XXI century than the decade before, but progress against poverty slowed down.
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The 2010 Basic Capabilities Index developed by Social Watch shows that in the last twenty years poverty reduction has slowed down.
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