Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000
in the total incidence of consumption poverty between 1987 and 1998. But it was not enough to reduce the total number of … poor people, by various definitions. The incidence of poverty fell in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, changed … the disappointing rate of poverty reduction: too little economic growth in many of the poorest countries, and persistent …