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 pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also p...

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Main Authors: Chen, Shaohua 1955- (Author), Ravallion, Martin 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C] World Bank 2008
Series:Policy research working paper 4703
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"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 pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived below our international line of
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/18/2009
Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2008]
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (52 Seiten)