The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more...

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Main Authors: Chen, Shaohua, Ravallion, Martin
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:
ABSOLUTE POVERTY
ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE
AGGREGATE POVERTY
CHILD MORTALITY
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
CONSUMPTION DATA
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
CONSUMPTION GROWTH
COUNTRY LEVEL
COUNTRY SPECIFIC
CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION
DATA AVAILABILITY
DATA ISSUES
DATA SETS
DECLINE IN POVERTY
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPING WORLD
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
DEVELOPMENT REPORT
DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION
ECONOMIC CONTRACTION
ECONOMIC GROWTH
EMPIRICAL RESULTS
ESTIMATES OF POVERTY
EXCHANGE RATE
EXCHANGE RATES
EXTREME POVERTY
FINANCIAL CRISIS
FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
FOOD BUNDLE
FOOD POVERTY
FOOD POVERTY LINE
FOOD PRICES
FOOD STAPLES
GLOBAL POVERTY
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
HEALTH CARE
HIGH INFLATION
HIGHER INEQUALITY
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD SIZE
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
HOUSING
INCIDENCE OF POVERTY
INCOME
INCOME SHOCKS
INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES
INEQUALITY
INEQUALITY MEASURES
INFLATION RATE
INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES
INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE
INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINES
LIVING STANDARDS
LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
MEASURING POVERTY
MEAT
MICRO DATA
NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
NATIONAL POVERTY
NATIONAL POVERTY LINES
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR
POOR COUNTRIES
POOR PEOPLE
POORER REGIONS
POPULATION SHARE
POVERTY ASSESSMENTS
POVERTY COMPARISONS
POVERTY GAP
POVERTY GAP INDEX
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY MEASURE
POVERTY MEASUREMENT
POVERTY MEASURES
POVERTY PROFILE
POVERTY RANKINGS
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY RATES
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY
POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPERS
PUBLIC SECTOR
QUALITATIVE COMPARISONS
REAL INCOMES
REGIONAL AUTHORITIES
REGIONAL AVERAGE
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
REGIONAL LEVEL
REGIONAL POVERTY
REGIONAL PROFILE
RURAL
RURAL AREAS
RURAL POVERTY
RURAL POVERTY LINE
RURAL POVERTY LINES
SAVINGS
SECTOR ACTIVITIES
SHARP FALL
TRANSITION ECONOMIES
WELFARE INDICATOR
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/08/11680409/developing-world-poorer-thought-no-less-successful-fight-against-poverty
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6322

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