How Have the World's PoorestFared Since the Early 1980s?

Chen, Shaohua ; Ravallion, Martin

World Bank, Washington, D.C.

关键词: ABSOLUTE POVERTY;    ABSOLUTE VALUE;    AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION;    AVERAGE CONSUMPTION;    CAPITA GROWTH;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-3341
RP-ID  :  WPS3341

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The authors present new estimates of theextent of the developing world's progress againstpoverty. By the frugal $1 a day standard, they find thatthere were 1.1 billion poor in 2001-almost 400 million fewerthan 20 years earlier. Over the same period, the number ofpoor declined by more than 400 million in China, though halfof this decline was in the first few years of the 1980s. Thenumber of poor outside China rose slightly over the period.A marked bunching up of people between $1 and $2 a day hasalso emerged. Sub-Saharan Africa has become the region withthe highest incidence of extreme poverty and the greatestdepth of poverty. If these trends continue, then theaggregate $1 a day poverty rate for 1990 will be halved by2015, though only East and South Asia will reach this goal.