"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 … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

poor by this standard. The income poverty rate in 2005 is 10%, implying about 65 million more people living in poverty … implications of the new Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) rate (derived by the ICP) for China's poverty rate (by international … ICP data. Using an international poverty line of USD 1.25 at 2005 PPP, we find a substantially higher poverty rate for …

detailed methodological decisions taken in the process of updating both the poverty line and the consumption and income … the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition …

While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980–2001, progress was uneven over time and … pattern of growth mattered. Rural economic growth was far more important to national poverty reduction than urban economic … the rural sector greatly slowed poverty reduction. Provinces starting with relatively high inequality saw slower progress …

Chen and Ravallion present new estimates of the extent of the developing world's progress against poverty. By the …