TY - BOOK ID - 134269454 TI - How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s? AU - Chen, Shaohua AU - Ravallion, Martin PY - 2004 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Extreme Poverty KW - Food Consumption KW - Global Poverty KW - Health, Nutrition and Population KW - Household Size KW - Household Survey KW - Household Surveys KW - Income KW - Inequality KW - International Poverty Line KW - Per Capita Consumption KW - Poor KW - Poor People KW - Population Policies KW - Poverty KW - Poverty Estimates KW - Poverty Line KW - Poverty Lines KW - Poverty Measures KW - Poverty Rates KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Rural KW - Rural Areas KW - Rural Development KW - Rural Poverty Reduction UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134269454 AB - Chen and Ravallion present new estimates of the extent of the developing World's progress against poverty. By the frugal USD 1 a day standard, they find that there were 1.1 billion poor in 2001-almost 400 million fewer than 20 years earlier. Over the same period, the number of poor declined by more than 400 million in China, though half of this decline was in the first few years of the 1980s. The number of poor outside China rose slightly over the period. A marked bunching up of people between USD 1 and USD 2 a day has also emerged. Sub-Saharan Africa has become the region with the highest incidence of extreme poverty and the greatest depth of poverty. If these trends continue, then the aggregate USD 1 a day poverty rate for 1990 will be halved by 2015, though only East and South Asia will reach this goal. This paper-a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group-is part of a larger effort in the group to monitor progress against poverty in the world. ER -