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

A new assessment is made of the developing world’s progress against poverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard there were 1.1 billion poor people in 2001—almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier. During that period the number of poor people declined by more than 400 million in China, though half...

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Main Authors: Chen, Shaohua, Ravallion, Martin
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
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Published: World Bank 2014
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/17559699/worlds-poorest-fared-early-1980s
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spelling okr-10986-164612021-04-23T14:03:30Z How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s? Chen, Shaohua Ravallion, Martin ABSOLUTE POVERTY ABSOLUTE VALUE AGGREGATE POVERTY AGRICULTURAL LABORERS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION CHANGES IN POVERTY CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMPTION BASKET CONSUMPTION DATA CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES COUNTRY LEVEL COUNTRY REGRESSIONS DAILY INCOME DATA SETS DECLINE IN POVERTY DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY MEASURES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS LETTERS EXCHANGE RATES EXTREME POVERTY FARM PRODUCTIVITY FARMERS FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD GRAINS GLOBAL POVERTY GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HIGH POVERTY HIGHER INEQUALITY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCIDENCE OF POVERTY INCOME INCOME DATA INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INEQUALITY INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES INEQUALITY INEQUALITY CONSTANT INEQUALITY DATA INEQUALITY FALLS INEQUALITY MEASURES INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINES LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEAN INCOME MEASURING POVERTY MICRO DATA NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL POVERTY 0 HYPOTHESIS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA GROWTH POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR COUNTRIES POOR LIVING POOR PEOPLE POPULOUS COUNTRIES POST-REFORM POVERTY ESTIMATES POVERTY GAP POVERTY GAP INDEX POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RANKINGS POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REGIONAL DIFFERENCES REGIONAL POVERTY RELATIVE PRICES RICH COUNTRIES RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL LIVING STANDARDS RURAL POVERTY SAVINGS SERIAL CORRELATION SQUARED POVERTY GAP TAXATION URBAN AREAS WELFARE INDICATOR WELFARE MEASURES A new assessment is made of the developing world’s progress against poverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard there were 1.1 billion poor people in 2001—almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier. During that period the number of poor people declined by more than 400 million in China, though half the decline was in the early 1980s and the number outside China rose slightly. At the same time the number of people in the world living on less than $2 a day rose, so that there has been a marked bunching up of people living between $1 and $2 a day. Sub-Saharan Africa has become the region with the highest incidence of extreme poverty and the greatest depth of poverty. If these trends continue, the 1990 aggregate $1 a day poverty rate will be halved by 2015, meeting the Millennium Development Goal, though only East and South Asia will reach this goal. 2014-01-02T20:44:00Z 2014-01-02T20:44:00Z 2003-01 Journal Article http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/17559699/worlds-poorest-fared-early-1980s World Bank Research Observer doi:10.1093/wbro/lkh020 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16461 English en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research :: Journal Article
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topic ABSOLUTE POVERTY
ABSOLUTE VALUE
AGGREGATE POVERTY
AGRICULTURAL LABORERS
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
CHANGES IN POVERTY
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
CONSUMPTION BASKET
CONSUMPTION DATA
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
COUNTRY LEVEL
COUNTRY REGRESSIONS
DAILY INCOME
DATA SETS
DECLINE IN POVERTY
DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY
DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY MEASURES
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING WORLD
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
DEVELOPMENT REPORT
DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMICS LETTERS
EXCHANGE RATES
EXTREME POVERTY
FARM PRODUCTIVITY
FARMERS
FOOD CONSUMPTION
FOOD GRAINS
GLOBAL POVERTY
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
HIGH POVERTY
HIGHER INEQUALITY
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD SIZE
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
INCIDENCE OF POVERTY
INCOME
INCOME DATA
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
INCOME INEQUALITY
INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES
INEQUALITY
INEQUALITY CONSTANT
INEQUALITY DATA
INEQUALITY FALLS
INEQUALITY MEASURES
INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE
INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINES
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
MEAN INCOME
MEASURING POVERTY
MICRO DATA
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
NATIONAL POVERTY
0 HYPOTHESIS
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
PER CAPITA GROWTH
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR LIVING
POOR PEOPLE
POPULOUS COUNTRIES
POST-REFORM
POVERTY ESTIMATES
POVERTY GAP
POVERTY GAP INDEX
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY MEASURE
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY RANKINGS
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY RATES
POVERTY REDUCTION
REDUCING POVERTY
REDUCTION IN POVERTY
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
REGIONAL POVERTY
RELATIVE PRICES
RICH COUNTRIES
RURAL
RURAL AREAS
RURAL LIVING STANDARDS
RURAL POVERTY
SAVINGS
SERIAL CORRELATION
SQUARED POVERTY GAP
TAXATION
URBAN AREAS
WELFARE INDICATOR
WELFARE MEASURES
spellingShingle ABSOLUTE POVERTY
ABSOLUTE VALUE
AGGREGATE POVERTY
AGRICULTURAL LABORERS
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
CHANGES IN POVERTY
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
CONSUMPTION BASKET
CONSUMPTION DATA
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
COUNTRY LEVEL
COUNTRY REGRESSIONS
DAILY INCOME
DATA SETS
DECLINE IN POVERTY
DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY
DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY MEASURES
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING WORLD
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
DEVELOPMENT REPORT
DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMICS LETTERS
EXCHANGE RATES
EXTREME POVERTY
FARM PRODUCTIVITY
FARMERS
FOOD CONSUMPTION
FOOD GRAINS
GLOBAL POVERTY
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
HIGH POVERTY
HIGHER INEQUALITY
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD SIZE
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
INCIDENCE OF POVERTY
INCOME
INCOME DATA
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
INCOME INEQUALITY
INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES
INEQUALITY
INEQUALITY CONSTANT
INEQUALITY DATA
INEQUALITY FALLS
INEQUALITY MEASURES
INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE
INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINES
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
MEAN INCOME
MEASURING POVERTY
MICRO DATA
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
NATIONAL POVERTY
0 HYPOTHESIS
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
PER CAPITA GROWTH
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR LIVING
POOR PEOPLE
POPULOUS COUNTRIES
POST-REFORM
POVERTY ESTIMATES
POVERTY GAP
POVERTY GAP INDEX
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY LINES
POVERTY MEASURE
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY RANKINGS
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY RATES
POVERTY REDUCTION
REDUCING POVERTY
REDUCTION IN POVERTY
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
REGIONAL POVERTY
RELATIVE PRICES
RICH COUNTRIES
RURAL
RURAL AREAS
RURAL LIVING STANDARDS
RURAL POVERTY
SAVINGS
SERIAL CORRELATION
SQUARED POVERTY GAP
TAXATION
URBAN AREAS
WELFARE INDICATOR
WELFARE MEASURES
Chen, Shaohua
Ravallion, Martin
How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?
description A new assessment is made of the developing world’s progress against poverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard there were 1.1 billion poor people in 2001—almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier. During that period the number of poor people declined by more than 400 million in China, though half the decline was in the early 1980s and the number outside China rose slightly. At the same time the number of people in the world living on less than $2 a day rose, so that there has been a marked bunching up of people living between $1 and $2 a day. Sub-Saharan Africa has become the region with the highest incidence of extreme poverty and the greatest depth of poverty. If these trends continue, the 1990 aggregate $1 a day poverty rate will be halved by 2015, meeting the Millennium Development Goal, though only East and South Asia will reach this goal.
format Journal Article
author Chen, Shaohua
Ravallion, Martin
author_facet Chen, Shaohua
Ravallion, Martin
author_sort Chen, Shaohua
title How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?
title_short How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?
title_full How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?
title_fullStr How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?
title_full_unstemmed How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?
title_sort how have the world's poorest fared since the early 1980s?
publisher World Bank
publishDate 2014
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/17559699/worlds-poorest-fared-early-1980s
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16461
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