This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption
inequality and poverty in developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and …

How many poor people are there in the world? This simple question is surprisingly difficult to
answer at present. Building on earlier exercises going back to the late 1970s, 1 the World …

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Overview: Income inequality and poverty in China, 2002 - 2007 Page 1 Li, Shi; Luo, Chuliang;
Sicular, Terry Working Paper Overview: Income inequality and poverty in China, 2002 - 2007 …

This book outlines and analyzes the economic development of China between 1949 and
2007. Rather than being narrowly economic, the book addresses many of the broader …

Answering the title question requires explicating its meaning and examining the empirical
evidence. The first task is begun in this introduction, which gives a rough account of the two …

What is global inequality? How can it be measured? What are the major trends and
patterns? What are the implications of global inequality for the world economy and …

The estimates of the extent, distribution and trend of global income poverty provided in the
World Bank's World Development Reports for 1990 and 2000-01 are neither meaningful nor …

Abstract The World Bank's approach to estimating the extent, distribution and trend of global
income poverty is neither meaningful nor reliable. The Bank uses an arbitrary international …

We evaluate the claim that world consumption poverty has fallen since 1990 in light of
alternative assumptions about the extent of initial poverty and the rate of subsequent poverty …