How Have the World's Poorest Fared since the Early 1980s?

By Shaohua Chen, M. Ravallion. 2003

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The authors present new estimates of the extent of the developing world's progress against poverty. By the frugal $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 $1 and $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 $1 a day poverty rate for 1990 will be halved by 2015, though only East and South Asia will reach this goal.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Dollar a Day Revisited (2008, positive): “It is also of interest to compare our new set of relative poverty lines with the relative poverty lines of Chen and Ravallion (2001, 2004), who used )3/,08.1max($ iC , which was chosen as a parsimonious specification that gave good fit with the RDV poverty lines at 1993 PPP.”
Using an Asset Index to Assess Trends in Poverty in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries (2008, background): “Yet, Chen and Ravallion (2004), using a $1 a day poverty line to calculate poverty headcounts for different regions, report that poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa has declined between 1987 and 1999.”
Weakly Relative Poverty (2009, neutral): “17 Chen and Ravallion (2001, 2004) implemented a slight variation on the AB lines, but their lines were still strongly relative above a critical level of consumption.”
Industrial development and economic growth Implications for poverty reduction and income inequality (2002, background): “However, some other countries have been less successful.”
Lights, Camera … Income! Illuminating the National Accounts-Household Surveys Debate (2016, background): “From equation (14), we can easily see that the estimate of the optimal relative weight on national accounts, b G bG+bS , is increasing in the ratio of the covariances cov(y i,t,y L i,t) cov(y i,t,y i,t) .”
Looking Beyond Averages in the Trade and Poverty Debate (2004, neutral): “7 Chen and Ravallion (2004a) estimate that in 2001, 17 per cent of China’s population live below about US$1 a day at 1993 Purchasing Power Parity; the corresponding figure for the world as a whole is 18 per cent (21 per cent for developing countries alone).”
Africa is on time (2014, positive): “4 We obtain inequality data from Chen and Ravallion (2010), and supplement it with similar data from the WIDER-DS dataset, pioneered by Deininger and Squire (1996) and maintained by the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER 2008).”