How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s? |
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$1 per day $2 line 1998 Expenditure 200 million fewer 2000 Expenditure 2001 East Asia America and Caribbean Angus Deaton Bank's PPPs Bourguignon Central Asia Chen and Ravallion China and India consumption or income coverage Datt and Ravallion day line day poverty rate day standard Deaton developing countries developing world East and North Eastern Europe Europe and Central excluding China Expenditure Income Expenditure Expenditure Income Income extreme poverty halve the 1990 household consumption expenditure incidence of poverty Income Expenditure Income Income Income Expenditure inequality June Latin America living below $1 Lorenz curve Martin Ravallion mean consumption mean income measuring poverty methods Middle East million fewer poor North Africa number of poor Number of surveys past estimates period poorest poverty gap index poverty measures progress against poverty Purchasing Power Parity Ravallion 2001 region relative poverty line Research Working Paper South Asia Sub-Saharan Africa survey data trend rate World Bank 2002 world's poor