-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty … of the time series data and non-linear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole …

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

-relative poverty in the developing world has been falling since the 1990s, but more slowly for the relative measure. While the number …

National poverty lines vary greatly across the world, from under $1 per person per day to over $40 (at 2005 purchasing … across the world and micro data on subjective perceptions of poverty are consistent with a weak form of relativity that …

surveys, 99 percent of the variance in the observed changes in PPPs is explicable. Using a nested test, the World Bank …

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 quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …

poverty incidence, but more slowly for the upper bound. Either way, the developing world has a higher poverty incidence but is … making more progress against poverty than the developed world …