1 “...The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world over 1981...”

2 “... people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived below our international line of...”

3 “...Chen and Ravallion present new estimates of the extent of the developing world's progress against...”

4 “... slowly for the upper bound. Either way, the developing world has a higher poverty incidence but is making...”

5 “... in the developing world, and the role that population urbanization has played in overall poverty reduction...”

6 “... of the population of the developing world lived in relative poverty, half of whom were absolutely poor. The total...”

7 “... in the group to monitor progress against poverty in the developing world. The authors may be contacted at schen...”