"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 …

smoothing properties of trade and financial openness in periods of currency crisis. "--World Bank web site …

zones, while openness in UEMOA has contributed to an appreciation of the real effective exchange rate. "--World Bank web …

missing. A meeting between the Minister of Public Works and a World Bank delegation recently concluded that Water Supply …