Tackling rural poverty, together

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This briefing summarizes the results of a paper by Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion, “The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty,” Policy Research Working Paper, World Bank. http://econ.worldbank.org/docsearch.

The PovcalNet web site (which allows users to replicate the estimates reported here from the primary data, and try alternative poverty lines, poverty measures and country groupings, including making estimates for individual countries) will be updated for public release on September 16 2008. See http://econ.worldbank.org/povcalnet.