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New Study Shows Significant Drop in World Poverty

— mjperry.blogspot.com — Some really interesting results from a new NBER working paper " Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income, " by Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala -i-Martin (Columbia University): Abstract: We use a parametric method to ... (more) New Study Shows Significant Drop in World Poverty

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Rethinking World Income Distribution: Not So Bad?
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed — Some controversial and potentially important findings in a new paper on a global income distribution changes over the last 40 years: Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income Maxim Pinkovskiy, Xavier Sala-i-Martin We use a parametric method to estimate the income distribution for 191 countries between 1970 and 2006. We estimate the World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate ...

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J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin: Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income We use a parametric method to estimate the income distribution for 191 countries between 1970 and 2006. We estimate the World ...

New Estimate of Global Poverty Reduction
Toro's Running of the Bulls Market Blog — At least until before the financial crisis. We use a parametric method to estimate the income distribution for 191 countries between 1970 and 2006. We estimate the World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0.054 in 2006. The corresponding total number of poor has fallen from 403 million in 1970 to 152 million in 2006. Our estimates of the global poverty count in 2006 ...