"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 …

"This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national …

"The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line … poor by US standards. Although barely 80 million people in the developing world entered the Western middle class over 1990 …-2002, economic growth and distributional shifts allowed an extra 1.2 billion people to join the developing world's middle class. Four …

population of the developing world lived in relative poverty, half of whom were absolutely poor. The total number of relatively … "other side of the coin" to success against absolute poverty. "--World Bank web site …"Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured …

poverty occurring in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. "--World Bank web site … assessment of the direct and indirect impacts of higher prices on global poverty using a representative sample of 63 to 93 … percent of the population of the developing world. To assess the direct effects, the paper uses domestic food consumer price …

that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …-term implications for both economic development and vulnerability to future crises. "--World Bank web site …