von Braun, Joachim; Gulati, Ashok; Fan, Shenggen; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2005
"The world made significant progress on reducing poverty between 1981 and 2001 — the number of people in developing … countries living on less than US$1 a day fell from 1.5 billion to 1.1 billion, or from 40 to 21 percent of the world … world's fastest-growing economies. The rapid economic growth and enormous poverty reduction achieved by China, and to a …
