, prepared jointly by the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, provides a development perspective on the …

The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank …

"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 …

countries are off track to meet the Millennium Development Goals, particularly in Africa and South Asia, but new evidence is …

are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national … cross-section analysis, and a global analysis provides estimates for the world as a whole. "--World Bank web site …

Three billion people will be added to the world's population over the next 50 years and 2.8 billion people today …