"An overview of the economic development of and policies intended to combat poverty around the world." …"While there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years … greater progress against poverty in the developing world in recent times-indeed, a faster pace of progress against extreme …

surveys, 99 percent of the variance in the observed changes in PPPs is explicable. Using a nested test, the World Bank …

National poverty lines vary greatly across the world, from under …

survey reveals that the bulk of the World Bank's senior staff value the Bank's research for their work, and most come to know …