This issue provides a usefully critical discussion of the current methods used by the World Bank for measuring poverty … agreement that the World Bank s current methods can be improved. These include the way that (invariably troublesome) income … considering his recommendations, the author will briefly describe how the World Bank measures poverty. …

day. The low-case, “pessimistic” path to that goal envisages the developing world outside China returning to the slower … maintain the developing world's (impressive) progress against absolute poverty since the turn of the century. This path would … time-series data and nonlinear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole. …