The World Bank has a new way to measure inequality
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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