"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

extreme poverty by applying updated poverty analysis methodology. Third, the report provides a profile of the poor in order to …This report examines poverty issues in the Kyrgyz Republic, focusing on three areas. First, it provides a summary of … the trends in poverty over the period 2000-2003 by drawing upon comparable data from the Household Budget Surveys from …

The study presents an overview on Argentina's economic growth, income distribution, and poverty, mostly as of 1991 … allow rapid growth, and stabilize the economy, without inflation, for a substantial poverty reduction. The elimination of …