The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line …-fifths came from Asia, and half from China. Most of the new entrants remained fairly close to poverty, with incomes now bunched up …

The paper proposes an approach to understand the relationship between inequality and economic growth obtained by … dynamics of specific groups of the population and to infer the role of growth in the evolution of inequality of opportunity … recent crisis suffered by Italy from both the income inequality and opportunity inequality perspectives. …

In 2013, the World Bank adopted two goals: First, reduce global extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. Second, promote … simulates the global poverty headcount under three growth scenarios for the bottom 40 percent up to 2030. The analysis deploys a … percentage points faster than the mean, the World Bank's poverty goal is achieved with the global poverty falling to below 3 …