Andy Sumner
Global Poverty and the New Bottom Billion: What if Three?quarters of the World's Poor Live in Middle?income Countries?
summary paper argues global poverty problem changed worlds poor longer live low income countries lics previously poverty viewed lic issue predominantly nowadays simplistic assumptionsclassifications misleading large countries graduated mic category still large numbers poor people 1990 estimate 93 per cent worlds poor lived lics contrastingly 20078 three quarters worlds poor approximately 13bn lived middleincome countries mics quarter worlds poor approximately 370mn people live remaining 39 lowincome countries largely subsaharan africa startling change two decades implies new bottom billion live fragile conflictaffected states stable middleincome countries global patterns evident across monetary nutritional multidimensional poverty measures paper argues general pattern robust enough warrant investigation discussion