TY - BOOK ID - 84783868 TI - Finance and Development, September 2015. PY - 2015 SN - 1475582005 1475536372 1475553188 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Economic development KW - Latin America KW - Economic conditions. KW - Exports and Imports KW - Finance: General KW - Labor KW - Macroeconomics KW - Islamic Banking and Finance KW - Other Economic Systems: Public Economics KW - Financial Economics KW - International Investment KW - Long-term Capital Movements KW - Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation KW - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution KW - Banks KW - Depository Institutions KW - Micro Finance Institutions KW - Mortgages KW - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General KW - Finance KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Banking KW - International economics KW - Poverty & precarity KW - Foreign direct investment KW - Stress testing KW - Islamic finance KW - Income inequality KW - Financial sector policy and analysis KW - Balance of payments KW - Financial services KW - National accounts KW - Poverty KW - Banks and banking KW - Islamic countries KW - Labor market KW - Investments, Foreign KW - Financial risk management KW - Income distribution KW - United States KW - Income economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84783868 AB - This chapter presents the point of view and ideas of Sabina Alkire, an economist. Alkire wants the Multidimensional Poverty Index to be part of a data revolution to guide the fight against poverty. According to Alkire, learning to meditate soothed away what she describes as the temper tantrums of her childhood. The chapter also highlights the fact that an index is only as good as its underlying data, and in emerging market economies that quality is often inadequate. The quest for better poverty metrics coincides with growing doubts about the ability of conventional statistics, especially GDP, to gauge economic growth in the digital economy, let alone well-being, welfare, and environmental sustainability. ER -