Global Relative Poverty

Lynge Nielsen

No 09/93, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Poverty; Income distribution; Economic growth; Economic forecasting; Social indicators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-04-28
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