Economic Progress

The World Bank has a new way to measure inequality

A woman with a baby on her back looks on at an informal settlement in the capital Luanda, August 30, 2012. Angolans will go to the polls on Friday to elect lawmakers and their president.

There are still around 800 million people or one in ten people living on less than $1.90 a day today. Image: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Mario Negre
Senior Economist, World Bank Development Research Group
Christoph Lakner
Economist in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, The World Bank.
José Cuesta
Development economist with a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford University and professor, Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy
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