-- Chapter 1 Overview: New Results on Poverty, Inequality, and the Growth in the Era of Globalization -- The Issues -- The … Poverty -- Poverty in the United States -- The World Bank Enters the Poverty Arena -- First Absolute Poverty Line, Estimates … Reduced -- Evolving World Bank Definitions of Poverty -- Section II Discussion of Knowledge on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the …