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Global Relative Poverty
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Author/Editor: |
Nielsen, Lynge |
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April 1, 2009 |
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Summary: The paper provides estimates of global relative poverty trends from 1970 onwards. Relative poverty is shown to have decreased significantly, but at the same time there has been a worsening poverty outcome among up to one billion of the world's poorest citizens. The paper also proposes a straightforward method for dividing an income distribution into classes of poor, rich, and middle-class.
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Working Paper No. 09/93 |
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Poverty | Income distribution | Economic growth | Economic forecasting | Social indicators |
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Author's keyword(s): |
Relative poverty
| global income inequality
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April 1, 2009 |
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WPIEA2009093 |
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16 |
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US$18.00 (Academic Rate: US$18.00 )
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