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 the decline was in the early 1980s and the number outside China rose slightly. At the same time the number of people in the world living on less than $2 a day rose, so that there has been a marked bunching up of people living between $1 and $2 a day. Sub-Saharan Africa has become the region with the highest incidence of extreme poverty and the greatest depth of poverty. If these trends continue, the 1990 aggregate $1 a day poverty rate will be halved by 2015, meeting the Millennium Development Goal, though only East and South Asia will reach this goal.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Chen, Shaohua, Ravallion, Martin
Format:	Journal Article biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank 2003-01
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 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/16461
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