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 … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …

whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of …