How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?

Ravallion, Martin

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-6325

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How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?

dc.contributor.author	Ravallion, Martin
dc.date.accessioned	2013-01-28T17:40:14Z
dc.date.available	2013-01-28T17:40:14Z
dc.date.issued	2013-01
dc.description.abstract	Alternative scenarios are considered for reducing by one billion the number of people living below $1.25 a day. The low-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty reduction of the 1980s and 1990s, though with China maintaining its progress. This path would take another 50 years or more to lift one billion people out of poverty. The more optimistic path would maintain the (impressive) progress against poverty since 2000, which would instead reach the target by around 2025-30. This scenario is consistent with both linear projections of the time series data and non-linear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17194882/long-take-lift-one-billion-people-out-poverty
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12166
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Policy Research Working Paper; No. 6325
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	ABSOLUTE POVERTY
dc.subject	ABSOLUTE VALUE
dc.subject	ACCESS TO SCHOOLING
dc.subject	AGGREGATE POVERTY
dc.subject	AGGREGATION BIAS
dc.subject	ANNUAL GROWTH
dc.subject	ANNUAL GROWTH RATE
dc.subject	ANNUAL RATE
dc.subject	AVERAGE INCOMES
dc.subject	AVERAGE INEQUALITY
dc.subject	CAPACITY BUILDING
dc.subject	CAPITAL FLOWS
dc.subject	CHANGES IN POVERTY
dc.subject	CONSTANT ELASTICITY
dc.subject	CONSUMPTION GROWTH
dc.subject	CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
dc.subject	CONVERGENCE PROCESS
dc.subject	COUNTRY INEQUALITY
dc.subject	COUNTRY LEVEL
dc.subject	CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS
dc.subject	CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject	CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION
dc.subject	DECOMPOSABLE INCOME INEQUALITY MEASURES
dc.subject	DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
dc.subject	DEVELOPING WORLD
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT GOALS
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT POLICY
dc.subject	DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY
dc.subject	DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGE
dc.subject	DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES
dc.subject	ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
dc.subject	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject	ECONOMIC GROWTH PERFORMANCE
dc.subject	ECONOMIC GROWTH PROSPECTS
dc.subject	ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
dc.subject	ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
dc.subject	ECONOMIC REVIEW
dc.subject	ECONOMICS LETTERS
dc.subject	ECONOMICS LITERATURE
dc.subject	ELASTICITY
dc.subject	ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
dc.subject	EXTREME POVERTY
dc.subject	FINANCIAL CRISIS
dc.subject	FORM OF POVERTY
dc.subject	GLOBAL ECONOMY
dc.subject	GLOBAL LEVEL
dc.subject	GLOBAL POVERTY
dc.subject	GROWTH PERFORMANCE
dc.subject	GROWTH PROSPECTS
dc.subject	GROWTH RATE
dc.subject	GROWTH RATES
dc.subject	HEALTH CARE
dc.subject	HIGH INEQUALITY
dc.subject	HIGHER INEQUALITY
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subject	HUMAN RIGHTS
dc.subject	INCIDENCE OF POVERTY
dc.subject	INCOME DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject	INCOME INEQUALITY
dc.subject	INCOME LEVELS
dc.subject	INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES
dc.subject	INEQUALITY FALLS
dc.subject	INEQUALITY INDEX
dc.subject	INEQUALITY MEASURES
dc.subject	INEQUALITY REDUCTION
dc.subject	INEQUALITY WILL
dc.subject	LIFE EXPECTANCY
dc.subject	MACROECONOMIC POLICIES
dc.subject	MARGINAL TAX
dc.subject	MARGINAL TAX RATES
dc.subject	MEAN CONSUMPTION
dc.subject	MEAN INCOME
dc.subject	MEAN LOG DEVIATION
dc.subject	MEASUREMENT ERRORS
dc.subject	MICRO DATA
dc.subject	NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
dc.subject	NATURAL RESOURCES
dc.subject	0 HYPOTHESIS
dc.subject	OBSERVED POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject	POINT DECLINE
dc.subject	POLICY DISCUSSIONS
dc.subject	POLICY REFORMS
dc.subject	POLICY RESEARCH
dc.subject	POLITICAL STABILITY
dc.subject	POOR
dc.subject	POOR COUNTRIES
dc.subject	POOR HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subject	POOR PEOPLE
dc.subject	POPULATION GROWTH
dc.subject	POVERTY GAP
dc.subject	POVERTY GAP INDEX
dc.subject	POVERTY INCIDENCE
dc.subject	POVERTY LINE
dc.subject	POVERTY MEASURE
dc.subject	POVERTY MEASURES
dc.subject	POVERTY RATE
dc.subject	POVERTY RATES
dc.subject	POVERTY REDUCING
dc.subject	POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject	POVERTY TRAPS
dc.subject	POWER PARITY
dc.subject	PRIVATE CONSUMPTION
dc.subject	PUBLIC SUPPORT
dc.subject	REDUCING INEQUALITY
dc.subject	REDUCING POVERTY
dc.subject	REDUCTION IN POVERTY
dc.subject	REGIONAL BREAKDOWN
dc.subject	RELATIVE DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject	RISING INEQUALITY
dc.subject	SAVINGS
dc.subject	SERIES DATA
dc.subject	SERIES OBSERVATIONS
dc.subject	SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE
dc.subject	TARGETED TRANSFERS
dc.subject	TARGETING
dc.title	How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?	en
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okr.date.disclosure	2013-01-01
okr.doctype	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/17194882/long-take-lift-one-billion-people-out-poverty
okr.globalpractice	Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpractice	Poverty
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-6325
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	000158349_20130122091052
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	17194882
okr.identifier.report	WPS6325
okr.language.supported	en
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okr.region.administrative	East Asia and Pacific
okr.relation.associatedurl	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/21427
okr.topic	Services and Transfers to Poor
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction :: Inequality
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction :: Rural Poverty Reduction
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction :: Achieving Shared Growth
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth :: Regional Economic Development
okr.unit	Development Research Group (DECRG)
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