"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 …

contrast, domestic regulatory impediments to competition are not robustly correlated with product innovation. "--World Bank web …

the policies to forestall them. The paper concludes by identifying directions for future research. "--World Bank web site …

Caribbean Region"--World Bank web site …

larger effort in the group to understand the sources of growth and volatility"--World Bank web site …