"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 …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left … the developing world and the US. Across developing countries, a higher mean income comes with a higher floor. The bulk of …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left … the developing world and the US. Across developing countries, a higher mean income comes with a higher floor. The bulk of …

Against what standards should we judge the developing world's overall performance against poverty going forward? The … the developing world, as long as this did not come with a reduction in the household sector's share or any further …. The first measure is absolute consumption poverty, as judged by what "poverty" means in the poorest countries. The second …

"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 …