This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally the authors also …

developing world and its regions. We get poverty estimates that are substantially lower and fall substantially faster than those … zero. Using the estimated optimal weights, we compute estimates of true income per capita and $1/day poverty rates for the … of Chen and Ravallion (2010) or of the survey-based poverty literature more generally. Our result is mainly driven by the …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …