This paper presents estimates of world output growth from 1970 to 2000, the distribution of income among countries and persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world income poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a series of simulation exercises that attempt to...

This paper presents estimates of world output growth from 1970 to 2000, the distribution of income among countries and persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a series of simulation exercises that attempt isolate the...

El autor sostiene que la efectividad de los instrumentos para aliviar la pobreza depende considerablemente de cómo se defina ésta. El propósito de disminuir la pobreza absoluta implica, principalmente, una discusión del crecimiento, que ha sido la fuente principal de su reducción secular....