Our official poverty measure is measuring the wrong thing.

In a newly published op-ed, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar Paul Wolfowitz, Mark Palmer, and Patrick Glenn emphasize that foreign assistance alone is a poor solution to reducing poverty and ineffective at improving governance in transitional democracies. Instead, the United Nations should establish Millennium Governance Goals.

Progress against poverty requires measuring countries by the rule of law, judicial independence and free speech.

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AEI's Henry Wendt Scholar Nicholas Eberstadt wins the prestigious Bradley Prize

How to help the poor is a question central to American life, rooted deeply in our nation's Judeo-Christian heritage.

If ever we need evidence of ideology run rampant, the House vote to eliminate the annual American Community Survey and the Economic Census to provide basic information on the state of businesses and industries in the country and data used for generating quarterly gross domestic product estimates is exhibit A.

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