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 …

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

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