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 surviving on less than $1.25 a day. The low-case, “pessimistic” path to that goal envisages the developing world outside China returning to the slower pace of economic growth and poverty reduction of the 1980s and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ravallion, Martin
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21427