The authors provide new evidence on the extent to which absolute poverty has urbanized in the developing world, and the … role that population urbanization has played in overall poverty reduction. They find that one-quarter of the world … helped reduce absolute poverty in the aggregate but did little for urban poverty. Over 1993-2002, the count of the …

poverty in terms of consumption (or income) is the overriding issue in poor countries, and (2) the only thing that really … matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of economic growth. The author takes (1) as given but questions (2 …, influences the extent of poverty today and the prospects for rapid poverty reduction in the future. "--World Bank web site …

Chen and Ravallion present new estimates of the extent of the developing world's progress against poverty. By the …

impacts of the crisis. This paper - a joint product of the Poverty Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network …, and Poverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to inform policy …