Introduction
Introduction
A. Elster
2003 · DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190859213.003.0026
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TLDR
In 2015, an estimated 736 million people lived below the level that the World Bank identifies as “extreme poverty,” with many more living precariously just above it.
Abstract
In 2015, an estimated 736 million people (about 10 percent of the world’s population) lived below the level that the World Bank identifies as “extreme poverty,” with many more living precariously just above it.1 This extreme poverty was partially responsible for 815 million people being undernourished in 2016,...