The Developing World Is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight against Poverty

• Tác giả: Shaohua Chen
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 330.91 Treatment by areas, regions, places in general
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 323269
• Chủ đề: 1. Economic Development: Human Resources; 2. Human Development; 3. Income Distribution; 4. Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320; 5. Migration O150

Tóm tắt

A new data set on national poverty lines is combined with new price data and almost 700 household surveys to estimate absolute poverty measures for the developing world. We find that 25% of the population lived in poverty in 2005, as judged by what "poverty" typically means in the world's poorest countries. This is higher than past estimates. Substantial overall progress is still indicated--the corresponding poverty rate was 52% in 1981--but progress was very uneven across regions. The trends over time and regional profile are robust to various changes in methodology, though precise counts are more sensitive.