Reddy, Sanjay G.; Minoiu, Camelia - In: Review of Income and Wealth 53 (2007) 3, pp. 484-502
We evaluate the claim that world consumption poverty has fallen since 1990 in light of alternative assumptions about the extent of initial poverty and the rate of subsequent poverty reduction in China, India, and the rest of the developing world. We use two poverty indicators: the aggregate...