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The new bottom billion : a narrative of inequality
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Abstract:
There is a ‘new bottom billion’, consisting of 960 million poor people, or 72% of the world’s poor, living in middle-income countries. In 1990, 93% of the world’s poor lived in low-income countries. This raises new questions for aid and development policy. This article discusses these questions and argues that a new development narrative is needed that focuses on poor people, rather than poor countries.
Authors:
Sumner, A.
Category:
General
End Page:
8
Serial number:
23
ISSN:
[1874-2033]
Journal:
The Broker
Keywords:
demography
,
development policy
,
poverty
Language:
eng
Organization:
The Broker
Year:
2011
Right:
© 2011 IDP. This article has been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported license.
Subject:
Social and Political Change
Start Page:
4
Title:
The new bottom billion : a narrative of inequality