progress is being made against poverty and inequality in the current period of “globalization.” This paper provides a non … evidence suggests that, if the rate of progress against absolute poverty in the developing world in the 1990s is maintained … on globalization and pro-poor growth. …

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 …