Global Poverty and the New Bottom BillionWhat if Three-quarters of the World’s Poor Live in Middle-income Countries?
Sumner, Andy
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Resumo
This paper argues that the problem of global poverty has changed because most of the world’s poor no longer live in poor countries, meaning low-income countries (LICs). In the past, poverty was viewed predominantly as a LIC issue. Nowadays such simplistic assumptions/classifications can be misleading because a number of the large countries that have graduated into the middle-income (MIC) category still have large numbers of poor people. We estimate that in 1990 some 93 per cent of the world’s poor people lived in LICs. In contrast, we estimate that in 2007-2008 some three-quarters of the world’s approximately 1.3 billion poor people now live in MICs; only about a quarter of the poor (about 370 million) live in the remaining 39 LICs, which are mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. (…)
Ficha do documento
- Tipo
- Estudo
- Ano
- 2010
- Instituição
- Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada
- Fonte
- Repositório do Ipea
- Idioma
- Inglês
- Acesso
- Acesso aberto
- Identificador
- oai:repositorio.ipea.gov.br:11058/15361
- Licença
- Licença total exclusiva
- Palavras-chave
- Global PovertyMiddle-income Countries
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