The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world over 1981-2004. A clear trend … find more mixed success in reducing the total number of poor. Indeed, the developing world outside China has seen little or …

-relative poverty in the developing world has been falling since the 1990s, but more slowly for the relative measure. While the number … measures of relative poverty. The paper argues instead for using a weakly-relative measure as the upper-bound complement to the … lower-bound provided by a standard absolute measure. New estimates of global poverty are presented, drawing on 850 household …

-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. …

This paper shows how differences in aggregate human development outcomes over time and space can be additively …

The authors use Morocco's national survey of living standards to measure the short-term welfare impacts of prior …

The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various …, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative … absolute level of living in development policy discussions. However, relative deprivation is still evident in the data from …

non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher … death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the developing world's trend rate of "$1 a day" poverty reduction in the 1990s …

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