distribution has become particularly important in recent decades. We reconfirm the findings of the literature that global poverty …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …

1970 and 1998. We estimate poverty rates and headcounts by integrating the density function below the $1/day and $2/day … poverty lines. We find that poverty rates decline substantially over the last twenty years. We compute poverty headcounts and … by 450 million over the same period. We analyze poverty across different regions and countries. Asia is a great success …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen …