The extremely low poverty line that the UN relies on has the advantage that it draws the
attention to the very poorest people in the world. It has the disadvantage that it ignores what …

The basic question about 'how many poor people are there in the world?'generally assumes
that poverty is measured according to international poverty lines (IPLs). Yet, an equally …

We are living through a period of rapid global poverty reduction. According to recent
estimates, high, sustained growth across most of the developing world allowed nearly half a …

This paper updates the distribution of global poverty data and makes projections up to 2020.
The paper asks the following question: Do the world's extreme poor live in poor countries? It …

This paper revisits, with new data, the changes in the distribution of global poverty towards
middle‐income countries (MICs). In doing so it discusses an implied 'poverty paradox'–the …

This paper argues that the global poverty problem has changed because most of the world's
poor no longer live in low income countries (LICs). Previously, poverty was viewed as an LIC …

Poverty reduction is now, and quite properly should remain, the primary objective of the
World Bank. But, when the World Bank dreams of a world free of poverty-what should it be …

This paper asks the following question: does the shift in global poverty towards middle‐
income countries (MICs) mean that global poverty is becoming a matter of national …

Abstract When the World Bank dreams of “a world free of poverty,” what should it be
dreaming? In measuring global income or consumption expenditure poverty, the World Bank …

summary World poverty is an important book offering fresh insights into how to tackle poverty
worldwide. With contributions from leading scholars in the field both internationally and in …