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 …

Against what standards should we judge the developing world's overall performance against poverty going forward? The … about a 1 percentage point higher growth rate for the gross domestic product of the developing world, as long as this did …

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 …

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 …

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 …