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

The authors present new estimates of the extent of the developing world's progress against poverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard, they find that there were 1.1 billion poor in 2001-almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier. Over the same period, the number of poor declined by more than 400 million in China, though half of this decline was in the first few years of the 1980s. The number of poor outside China rose slightly over the period. A marked bunching up of people between $1 and $2 a day has also emerged. Sub-Saharan Africa has become the region with the highest incidence of extreme poverty and the greatest depth of poverty. If these trends continue, then the aggregate $1 a day poverty rate for 1990 will be halved by 2015, though only East and South Asia will reach this goal.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Chen, Shaohua, Ravallion, Martin
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2004-06
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE POVERTY, ABSOLUTE VALUE, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AVERAGE CONSUMPTION, CAPITA GROWTH, CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION, CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES, COUNTRY LEVEL, COUNTRY REGRESSIONS, DATA SET, DATA SOURCES, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPING WORLD, DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS, DEVELOPMENT REPORT, DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH, ECONOMIC GROWTH, EXCHANGE RATES, EXTREME POVERTY, FOOD CONSUMPTION, GROWTH RATE, GROWTH RATES, HEADCOUNT INDEX, HIGH POVERTY, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, INCOME COUNTRIES, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS, INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES, INDIVIDUAL POVERTY, INEQUALITY, INEQUALITY CONSTANT, INEQUALITY DATA, INEQUALITY FALLS, INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE, LOCAL CURRENCY, LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES, MEAN CONSUMPTION, MEAN DISTANCE, MEAN INCOME, MEASURED POVERTY, MEASURING POVERTY, MICRO DATA, NATIONAL ACCOUNTS, PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION, PER CAPITA GROWTH, POLICY RESEARCH, POOR, POOR COUNTRIES, POOR PEOPLE, POPULOUS COUNTRIES, POVERTY GAP, POVERTY GAP INDEX, POVERTY HEADCOUNT, POVERTY LINE, POVERTY LINES, POVERTY MEASURE, POVERTY MEASURES, POVERTY RATE, POVERTY RATES, POVERTY REDUCTION, PURCHASING POWER PARITY, REDUCING POVERTY, RELATIVE POVERTY, RELATIVE PRICES, RURAL AREAS, SAMPLE SIZES, SAVING RATE, SQUARED POVERTY GAP, URBAN AREAS ABSOLUTE POVERTY, ECONOMIC WELFARE, INCIDENCE OF POVERTY, INFLATION, LIVING STANDARDS, POVERTY ESTIMATES, PRIVATE CONSUMPTION, REGIONAL POVERTY, RELATIVE POVERTY LINE, RURAL POVERTY,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/06/4964085/worlds-poorest-fared-early-1980s https://hdl.handle.net/10986/14047
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