pace of economic growth and poverty reduction of the 1980s and 1990s, but with China maintaining its progress. This path … would take 50 years or more to lift one billion people out of poverty. A more optimistic path is identified that would … maintain the developing world's (impressive) progress against absolute poverty since the turn of the century. This path would …

-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty … lift one billion people out of poverty. The more optimistic path would maintain the (impressive) progress against poverty …

-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty … lift one billion people out of poverty. The more optimistic path would maintain the (impressive) progress against poverty …