Cross country poverty comparisons on unit records have, rarely, involved both developing and developed countries. The … present study attempts to fill this gap by comparing poverty across fourteen nations with diverse economic and demographic … of demographic adjustment of the poverty line, that incorporate household size and composition changes, on the poverty …

death rates - accounts for 10-30% of the developing world's trend rate of $1 a day poverty reduction in the 1990s. However … rates - has had a more than offsetting poverty-increasing effect. The net impact of differential natural population growth … represents 10-50% of the trend rate of poverty reduction …