PHA-Exchange> Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981-2004

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Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981-2004

 

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

Development Research Group,        

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4211, April 2007

 

Available online as PDF file [24p.] at:
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:4211&r=ltv
<http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:4211&r=ltv>               

 

"......The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty
for the developing world over 1981-2004. A clear trend decline in the
percentage of people who are absolutely poor is evident, although with
uneven progress across regions. 

 

They find more mixed success in reducing the total number of poor.
Indeed, the developing world outside China has seen little or no
sustained progress in reducing the number of poor, with rising poverty
counts in some regions, notably Sub-Saharan Africa. There are
encouraging signs of progress in reducing the incidence of poverty in
all regions after 2000, although it is too early to say if this is a new
trend....."

 

 

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