1. POVERTY ACROSS THE PLANET

2. THREE WAYS TO MEASURE POVERTY Relative: Method used by the European and Scandinavian Nations (% of Median income of various size families) Fixed: The American methodology—a dollar amount for each family size, unrelated to median income. Absolute: World Bank Measure of Poverty in the less developed World

3. WORLD POVERTY: 2005

5. TWENTY-FIVE OF THE WORLD’S POOREST NATIONS

11. WHO USES THE WORLD’S RESOURCES?

14. PROGRESS IN REDUCING POVERTY

18. CHILD POVERTY

24. THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT TRANSFERS IN REDUCING POVERTY