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This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … in the 2000s. There has been a remarkable fall in income poverty since the early 1980s, driven by the exceptional … poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general …