How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s?

How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s?

The authors present new estimates of the extent of the developing world's progress against poverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard, they find that there were 1.1 billion poor in 2001-almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier. Over the sa...

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Main Authors:	Chen, Shaohua, Ravallion, Martin
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE POVERTY ABSOLUTE VALUE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AVERAGE CONSUMPTION CAPITA GROWTH CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES COUNTRY LEVEL COUNTRY REGRESSIONS DATA SET DATA SOURCES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ECONOMIC GROWTH EXCHANGE RATES EXTREME POVERTY FOOD CONSUMPTION GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HEADCOUNT INDEX HIGH POVERTY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCOME COUNTRIES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES INDIVIDUAL POVERTY INEQUALITY INEQUALITY CONSTANT INEQUALITY DATA INEQUALITY FALLS INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE LOCAL CURRENCY LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEAN CONSUMPTION MEAN DISTANCE MEAN INCOME MEASURED POVERTY MEASURING POVERTY MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA GROWTH POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR COUNTRIES POOR PEOPLE POPULOUS COUNTRIES POVERTY GAP POVERTY GAP INDEX POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PURCHASING POWER PARITY REDUCING POVERTY RELATIVE POVERTY RELATIVE PRICES RURAL AREAS SAMPLE SIZES SAVING RATE SQUARED POVERTY GAP URBAN AREAS ABSOLUTE POVERTY ECONOMIC WELFARE INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INFLATION LIVING STANDARDS POVERTY ESTIMATES PRIVATE CONSUMPTION REGIONAL POVERTY RELATIVE POVERTY LINE RURAL POVERTY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/06/4964085/worlds-poorest-fared-early-1980s http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14047

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/06/4964085/worlds-poorest-fared-early-1980s
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14047

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