points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of …

-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty … of the time series data and non-linear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole. …

of "globalization." The author views the issue through both "macro" and "micro" empirical lenses. The macro lens uses … micro approaches cast doubt on some wide generalizations from both sides of the globalization debate. Additionally the micro …

developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …

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 …