...years, the world's 200 richest people have doubled their wealth to more than $1 trillion ($l,000bn). The number of people living on less than a dollar a day has remained unchanged at 1.3bn. Source: The Guardian, 1 2 July 1999 'Global inequalities in income...

...officials publicly denied many of the Commission's statements. The facts are clear and simple to relate: between 1987 and 1998, the number of people living on less than a dollar a day, the Bank's measure of extreme poverty, remained the same. The proportion of the population declined...

...points the world over, in Africa the change was barely discernible. Even with faster economic growth, the number of people living on less than a dollar a day will increase from nearly 291 million in 1998 to nearly 330 million in 2008. Under conditions of slower...

...dollar a day. In many regions the number is increasing: in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, for example, the number of people living on less than a dollar a day is estimated to have increased from 1.1 million in 1987 to 24 million in 1998. More than half the world's...

...with their combined strength, can become a very effective force to eliminate poverty from the world. The number of people living on less than a dollar a day is now 1.2 billion. This number is going to double by the middle of this century if the present trend...

...2004). Only six African countries, mostly in north Africa, are likely to meet the MDG goal of halving the number of people living on less than a dollar a day. The MDGs remain underfinanced by more than US$40 000 million overall (OECD Development Centre and AfDB...

...in recent decades. The most recent World Bank estimates show that both the share of population and the number of people living on less than a dollar a day declined substantially in the mid-1990s, after increasing in the early 1990s, although the numbers...

...Gonzalez and Salman MA Salman* About 800 million people in the world go to bed hungry every night. The number of people living on less than a dollar a day is staggering. As demonstrated in the past, irrigation can play a major role in increasing food security...

...Development Decade of the 1960s. Nonetheless, conventional wisdom is that poverty is on its way out, because the number of people living on less than a dollar a day is falling. Yet. what is the significance of the dollar a day criterion, which has found its way into...

...Economist (London), 6 December 1997. 65. In mid- 1999, the World Bank reported that from 1993 to 1995, the number of people living on less than a dollar a day rose from 1.3 billion to 1.5 billion. Financial Times (London), 4 June 1999. 66. This according to...