progress is being made against poverty and inequality in the current period of quot;globalization.quot; Ravallion provides a … differences in data sources and measurement assumptions. These differences are often hidden from view in the debate, but they need … evidence suggests that if the rate of progress against absolute poverty in the developing world in the 1990s is maintained …

used are inconsistent with the properties that are considered desirable for a measure of the level of poverty.The authors … measurement tools is the growth incidence curve, which gives growth rates by quantiles (such as percentiles) ranked by income …. Taking the area under this curve up to the headcount index of poverty gives a measure of the rate of pro-poor growth …