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May 2000 - Existing methods for assessing latent country or institutional performance can yield deceptive results. There have been many attempts to infer latent performance attributes of governments (or other institutions) from conditional comparisons that control for observed variables. Success...
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Against what standards should we judge the developing world's overall performance against poverty going forward? The … the developing world, as long as this did not come with a reduction in the household sector's share or any further …
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developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …
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"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 … early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived …
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