progress is being made against poverty and inequality in the current period of “globalization.” This paper provides a non … evidence suggests that, if the rate of progress against absolute poverty in the developing world in the 1990s is maintained …, then the Millennium Development Goal of halving the 1990 aggregate poverty rate by 2015 will be achieved on time in the …

The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line …-fifths came from Asia, and half from China. Most of the new entrants remained fairly close to poverty, with incomes now bunched up …

"Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured … poverty does not fall when all incomes grow at the same rate. This stems from the (implicit) assumption in past measures that … roles of certain private expenditures in poor settings and with data on national poverty lines. The authors propose a new …

China has seen a huge reduction in the incidence of extreme poverty since the economic reforms that started in the late … China´s growth mattered to poverty reduction using a new provincial panel data set constructed for this purpose. The … econometric tests support the view that the primary sector (mainly agriculture) has been the main driving force in poverty …

revisits the issues using a new series of consumption-based poverty measures spanning 50 years, and including a 15-year period … after economic reforms began in earnest in the early 1990s. Growth has tended to reduce poverty, including in the post …-reform period. There is no robust evidence that the responsiveness of poverty to growth has increased, or decreased, since the …