Title:
The new bottom billion : a narrative of inequality
Authors:
Sumner, A.
Year:
2011
Serial number:
23
Journal:
The Broker
Pages:
4
-
8
ISSN:
[1874-2033]
Language:
eng
Subject:
Social and Political Change
Keywords:
demography
,
development policy
,
poverty
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.
Organization:
The Broker
Category:
General
Right:
© 2011 IDP. This article has been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported license.
Document type:
E-article
File:
206124.pdf