"The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line …-2002, economic growth and distributional shifts allowed an extra 1.2 billion people to join the developing world's middle class. Four …-fifths came from Asia, and half from China. Most of the new entrants remained fairly close to poverty, with incomes now bunched up …

relative poverty becomes less responsive to further growth. Slower progress against relative poverty can thus be seen as the …"Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured … poverty does not fall when all incomes grow at the same rate. This stems from the (implicit) assumption in past measures that …

dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … liberalization of agriculture and food could increase global extreme poverty (US …

growth; thus, there are benefits of owning large natural resources. There can be a significant spillover effect from the oil …

assessment of the direct and indirect impacts of higher prices on global poverty using a representative sample of 63 to 93 … that the implied increase in the extreme poverty headcount at the global level is 1.7 percentage points, with significant …) could raise global poverty in 2010 by 0.6 percentage points at the extreme poverty line and 0.9 percentage points at the …

"Seasonal poverty in Bangladesh, locally known as monga, refers to seasonal deprivation of food during the pre … labor markets has helped reduce seasonality in income and poverty in regions other than Rangpur in the recent past. Hence … targeted poor to contain income seasonality and poverty in this impoverished part of Bangladesh. "--World Bank web site …

"Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in …

Tanzania. Using longitudinal data on individuals, the authors estimate the impact of migration on consumption growth between … changes and the decision to migrate. The findings show that migration adds 36 percentage points to consumption growth, during … a period of considerable growth in consumption. These results are robust to numerous tests and alternative …

"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for … women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …