In 1990, 93 per cent of the world?s poor people lived in poor countries?that is, low-income countries (LICs). For 2007?2008, our estimates suggest three things. First, three-quarters of the world?s poor, or almost 1 billion poor people, now live in middle-income countries (MICs). Second, just a...

Onde Vivem os Pobres? Em 1990, 93 por cento das pessoas pobres do mundo viviam em países pobres, ou seja, Países de Baixa Renda (PBR). No período 2007?2008, as estimativas sugerem três coisas. Primeiro: três quartos dos pobres do mundo?ou quase 1 bilhão de pessoas pobres?vivem agora em...

Alguns dos ?temas cruciais? que perpassam as recentes crises econômica e de alimentos/combustíveis terão um impacto sobre os Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milênio (ODM) até 2015 e além, tais como as mudanças climáticas, a evolução tecnológica e a urbanização. Cenários ? vários...

Debate about national and international poverty measurement continued to evolve (see for example Abu-Ismail et al., 2012). The international poverty lines of US$1.25 and US$2/day are, respectively, the average of the national poverty lines for the poorest 15 countries and the average for all...

Debate about national and international poverty measurement continued to evolve (see for example, Abu-Ismail et al., 2012). The basic question of how many poor people there are in the world generally assumes that poverty is measured according to international poverty lines (IPLs). Yet, an...

This paper argues that the problem of global poverty has changed because most of the world?s poor no longer live in poor countries, meaning low-income countries (LICs). In the past, poverty was viewed predominantly as a LIC issue. Nowadays such simplistic assumptions/classifications can be...

Much research to date has tended to view vulnerability by discipline or sector, yet individuals and households experience multiple, interacting and sometimes compound vulnerabilities. Cross-disciplinary thinking is emerging as multi-dimensional vulnerability is likely to become an increasingly...

This Poverty in Focus reviews the experience of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to date and asks what we can do to accelerate MDG progress in the years 2010?2015 and beyond. Longer versions of each article herein are available in IDS Bulletin 41 (1) from the Institute of Development...