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 … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average impact on poverty depends upon the balance between these two effects …-income countries show that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by commodity and by … country, but, that poverty increases are much more frequent, and larger, than poverty reductions. The recent large increases …

The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world over 1981-2004. A clear trend … no sustained progress in reducing the number of poor, with rising poverty counts in some regions, notably Sub …-Saharan Africa. There are encouraging signs of progress in reducing the incidence of poverty in all regions after 2000, although it …

The authors provide new evidence on the extent to which absolute poverty has urbanized in the developing world, and the … role that population urbanization has played in overall poverty reduction. They find that one-quarter of the world … helped reduce absolute poverty in the aggregate but did little for urban poverty. Over 1993-2002, the count of the "$1 a day …

to estimate the combined impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The … analysis finds that the actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net … effect was to increase global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different …