This paper studies future poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity outcomes using a panel data set with 150 countries … over 1980-2014. The findings suggest that global extreme poverty will decrease in absolute and relative terms in the period … 2015-2030. However, absolute poverty is likely to increase by 2030 in resource-output oriented countries and economies with …

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 …

countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …