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 en_US
Published:	World Bank 2014
Subjects:	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
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/01/17559699/worlds-poorest-fared-early-1980s http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16461

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16461

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

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