ROME – In early 2012, outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced that the Millennium Development Goal of halving the global poverty rate relative to its 1990 level had been achieved in 2010 – five years ahead of schedule. But many analysts have challenged estimates that rely on the World Bank’s current poverty line, raised in 2008 from $1 to $1.25 per day, in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
罗马—2012年初，即将卸任的世界银行行长佐利克宣布，让全球贫困率在1990年水平的基础上下降一半的联合国千年发展目标在2010年实现了，比计划提早了五年。但许多分析家对基于世行当前贫困线的估计提出了挑战。2008年，世行贫困线从每天1美元提高到了每天1.25美元（按购买力评价即PPP计算）。