Is Extreme Poverty Going to End? An Analytical Framework to Evaluate Progress in Ending Extreme Poverty

The World Bank has recently adopted a target of reducing the proportion of population living below US$1.25 a day at 2005 international prices to 3 percent by 2030. This paper reviews different projection methods and estimates the global poverty rat...

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Main Authors:	Yoshida, Nobuo, Uematsu, Hiroki, Sobrado, Carlos E.
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	AGGREGATION BIAS ANNUAL GROWTH ANNUAL GROWTH RATE ANNUAL RATE AVERAGE ANNUAL AVERAGE GROWTH AVERAGE GROWTH RATE AVERAGE INEQUALITY CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA COUNTRY INEQUALITY COUNTRY LEVEL COUNTRY SPECIFIC CROSS-COUNTRY REGRESSION DATA AVAILABILITY DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPED WORLD DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES ECONOMIC CRISES ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMICS EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EMPIRICAL STUDIES ESTIMATES OF POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY GLOBAL LEVEL GLOBAL POVERTY GROWTH ELASTICITY GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES GROWTH TARGET HIGH GROWTH HIGH GROWTH RATE HIGH POVERTY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCREASING GROWTH INCREASING INEQUALITY INEQUALITY INEQUALITY CHANGES INEQUALITY CONSTANT INEQUALITY EFFECT INEQUALITY WILL MEAN EXPENDITURES NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATURAL DISASTER NATURAL DISASTERS NUTRITION POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR COUNTRIES POOR INDIVIDUALS POOR PEOPLE POOR POPULATIONS POPULATION COMPOSITION POPULATION DATA POPULATION SHARE POVERTY DATA POVERTY DATABASE POVERTY ESTIMATES POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY HEADCOUNT RATE POVERTY HEADCOUNT RATES POVERTY INDICATORS POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY TARGET PRIVATE CONSUMPTION REDUCED INEQUALITY REDUCING INEQUALITY REDUCING POVERTY REGIONAL AVERAGE REGIONAL DECOMPOSITIONS REGIONAL POPULATION REGIONAL POPULATION GROWTH REGIONAL POPULATION GROWTH RATES REGIONAL POVERTY REGRESSION ANALYSIS RELATIVE DISTRIBUTION RURAL RURAL AREAS RURAL POVERTY RURAL POVERTY RATES RURAL URBAN NATIONAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION URBAN AREAS
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