Against what standards should we judge the developing world's overall performance against poverty going forward? The … the developing world, as long as this did not come with a reduction in the household sector's share or any further …

developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …

"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 … early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived …

This issue provides a usefully critical discussion of the current methods used by the World Bank for measuring poverty … agreement that the World Bank s current methods can be improved. These include the way that (invariably troublesome) income … considering his recommendations, the author will briefly describe how the World Bank measures poverty. …