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 …

the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. … world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in PPP units of monthly real consumption and income for every …

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. … unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark …

Global GDP is more than 100 trillion dollars, yet 10% of the world's population still live in extreme poverty on less … world to each poor person would eliminate extreme poverty directly and at negligible cost. It is the least we should do … than $1.90 per day. No one should have to live like that: alleviating poverty is a minimal moral obligation implied by …