How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?

Alternative scenarios are considered for reducing by one billion the number of people living below $1.25 a day. The low-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of gr...

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Main Author: Ravallion, Martin
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
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spelling okr-10986-121662021-04-23T14:03:06Z How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty? Ravallion, Martin ABSOLUTE POVERTY ABSOLUTE VALUE ACCESS TO SCHOOLING AGGREGATE POVERTY AGGREGATION BIAS ANNUAL GROWTH ANNUAL GROWTH RATE ANNUAL RATE AVERAGE INCOMES AVERAGE INEQUALITY CAPACITY BUILDING CAPITAL FLOWS CHANGES IN POVERTY CONSTANT ELASTICITY CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA CONVERGENCE PROCESS COUNTRY INEQUALITY COUNTRY LEVEL CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DECOMPOSABLE INCOME INEQUALITY MEASURES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGE DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC GROWTH PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC GROWTH PROSPECTS ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMICS LETTERS ECONOMICS LITERATURE ELASTICITY ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY EXTREME POVERTY FINANCIAL CRISIS FORM OF POVERTY GLOBAL ECONOMY GLOBAL LEVEL GLOBAL POVERTY GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH PROSPECTS GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEALTH CARE HIGH INEQUALITY HIGHER INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN RIGHTS INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVELS INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES INEQUALITY FALLS INEQUALITY INDEX INEQUALITY MEASURES INEQUALITY REDUCTION INEQUALITY WILL LIFE EXPECTANCY MACROECONOMIC POLICIES MARGINAL TAX MARGINAL TAX RATES MEAN CONSUMPTION MEAN INCOME MEAN LOG DEVIATION MEASUREMENT ERRORS MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATURAL RESOURCES 0 HYPOTHESIS OBSERVED POVERTY REDUCTION POINT DECLINE POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY REFORMS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL STABILITY POOR POOR COUNTRIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR PEOPLE POPULATION GROWTH POVERTY GAP POVERTY GAP INDEX POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY TRAPS POWER PARITY PRIVATE CONSUMPTION PUBLIC SUPPORT REDUCING INEQUALITY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL BREAKDOWN RELATIVE DISTRIBUTION RISING INEQUALITY SAVINGS SERIES DATA SERIES OBSERVATIONS SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE TARGETED TRANSFERS TARGETING Alternative scenarios are considered for reducing by one billion the number of people living below $1.25 a day. The low-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty reduction of the 1980s and 1990s, though with China maintaining its progress. This path would take another 50 years or more to lift one billion people out of poverty. The more optimistic path would maintain the (impressive) progress against poverty since 2000, which would instead reach the target by around 2025-30. This scenario is consistent with both linear projections of the time series data and non-linear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole. 2013-01-28T17:40:14Z 2013-01-28T17:40:14Z 2013-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17194882/long-take-lift-one-billion-people-out-poverty http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12166 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper; No. 6325 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific
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topic ABSOLUTE POVERTY
ABSOLUTE VALUE
ACCESS TO SCHOOLING
AGGREGATE POVERTY
AGGREGATION BIAS
ANNUAL GROWTH
ANNUAL GROWTH RATE
ANNUAL RATE
AVERAGE INCOMES
AVERAGE INEQUALITY
CAPACITY BUILDING
CAPITAL FLOWS
CHANGES IN POVERTY
CONSTANT ELASTICITY
CONSUMPTION GROWTH
CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
CONVERGENCE PROCESS
COUNTRY INEQUALITY
COUNTRY LEVEL
CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS
CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION
CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION
DECOMPOSABLE INCOME INEQUALITY MEASURES
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING WORLD
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY
DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGE
DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC GROWTH PERFORMANCE
ECONOMIC GROWTH PROSPECTS
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
ECONOMIC REVIEW
ECONOMICS LETTERS
ECONOMICS LITERATURE
ELASTICITY
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
EXTREME POVERTY
FINANCIAL CRISIS
FORM OF POVERTY
GLOBAL ECONOMY
GLOBAL LEVEL
GLOBAL POVERTY
GROWTH PERFORMANCE
GROWTH PROSPECTS
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
HEALTH CARE
HIGH INEQUALITY
HIGHER INEQUALITY
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
HUMAN RIGHTS
INCIDENCE OF POVERTY
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME LEVELS
INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES
INEQUALITY FALLS
INEQUALITY INDEX
INEQUALITY MEASURES
INEQUALITY REDUCTION
INEQUALITY WILL
LIFE EXPECTANCY
MACROECONOMIC POLICIES
MARGINAL TAX
MARGINAL TAX RATES
MEAN CONSUMPTION
MEAN INCOME
MEAN LOG DEVIATION
MEASUREMENT ERRORS
MICRO DATA
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
NATURAL RESOURCES
0 HYPOTHESIS
OBSERVED POVERTY REDUCTION
POINT DECLINE
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
POLICY REFORMS
POLICY RESEARCH
POLITICAL STABILITY
POOR
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR HOUSEHOLDS
POOR PEOPLE
POPULATION GROWTH
POVERTY GAP
POVERTY GAP INDEX
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY MEASURE
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY RATES
POVERTY REDUCING
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY TRAPS
POWER PARITY
PRIVATE CONSUMPTION
PUBLIC SUPPORT
REDUCING INEQUALITY
REDUCING POVERTY
REDUCTION IN POVERTY
REGIONAL BREAKDOWN
RELATIVE DISTRIBUTION
RISING INEQUALITY
SAVINGS
SERIES DATA
SERIES OBSERVATIONS
SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE
TARGETED TRANSFERS
TARGETING
spellingShingle ABSOLUTE POVERTY
ABSOLUTE VALUE
ACCESS TO SCHOOLING
AGGREGATE POVERTY
AGGREGATION BIAS
ANNUAL GROWTH
ANNUAL GROWTH RATE
ANNUAL RATE
AVERAGE INCOMES
AVERAGE INEQUALITY
CAPACITY BUILDING
CAPITAL FLOWS
CHANGES IN POVERTY
CONSTANT ELASTICITY
CONSUMPTION GROWTH
CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
CONVERGENCE PROCESS
COUNTRY INEQUALITY
COUNTRY LEVEL
CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS
CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION
CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION
DECOMPOSABLE INCOME INEQUALITY MEASURES
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING WORLD
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY
DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGE
DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC GROWTH PERFORMANCE
ECONOMIC GROWTH PROSPECTS
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
ECONOMIC REVIEW
ECONOMICS LETTERS
ECONOMICS LITERATURE
ELASTICITY
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
EXTREME POVERTY
FINANCIAL CRISIS
FORM OF POVERTY
GLOBAL ECONOMY
GLOBAL LEVEL
GLOBAL POVERTY
GROWTH PERFORMANCE
GROWTH PROSPECTS
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
HEALTH CARE
HIGH INEQUALITY
HIGHER INEQUALITY
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
HUMAN RIGHTS
INCIDENCE OF POVERTY
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME LEVELS
INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES
INEQUALITY FALLS
INEQUALITY INDEX
INEQUALITY MEASURES
INEQUALITY REDUCTION
INEQUALITY WILL
LIFE EXPECTANCY
MACROECONOMIC POLICIES
MARGINAL TAX
MARGINAL TAX RATES
MEAN CONSUMPTION
MEAN INCOME
MEAN LOG DEVIATION
MEASUREMENT ERRORS
MICRO DATA
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
NATURAL RESOURCES
0 HYPOTHESIS
OBSERVED POVERTY REDUCTION
POINT DECLINE
POLICY DISCUSSIONS
POLICY REFORMS
POLICY RESEARCH
POLITICAL STABILITY
POOR
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR HOUSEHOLDS
POOR PEOPLE
POPULATION GROWTH
POVERTY GAP
POVERTY GAP INDEX
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY MEASURE
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY RATES
POVERTY REDUCING
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY TRAPS
POWER PARITY
PRIVATE CONSUMPTION
PUBLIC SUPPORT
REDUCING INEQUALITY
REDUCING POVERTY
REDUCTION IN POVERTY
REGIONAL BREAKDOWN
RELATIVE DISTRIBUTION
RISING INEQUALITY
SAVINGS
SERIES DATA
SERIES OBSERVATIONS
SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE
TARGETED TRANSFERS
TARGETING
Ravallion, Martin
How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?
geographic_facet East Asia and Pacific
relation Policy Research Working Paper; No. 6325
description Alternative scenarios are considered for reducing by one billion the number of people living below $1.25 a day. The low-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty reduction of the 1980s and 1990s, though with China maintaining its progress. This path would take another 50 years or more to lift one billion people out of poverty. The more optimistic path would maintain the (impressive) progress against poverty since 2000, which would instead reach the target by around 2025-30. This scenario is consistent with both linear projections of the time series data and non-linear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole.
format Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author Ravallion, Martin
author_facet Ravallion, Martin
author_sort Ravallion, Martin
title How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?
title_short How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?
title_full How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?
title_fullStr How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?
title_full_unstemmed How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?
title_sort how long will it take to lift one billion people out of poverty?
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2013
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17194882/long-take-lift-one-billion-people-out-poverty
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12166
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