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The New Bottom Billion refers to the 960 million or so poor people (approximately three-quarters of the world's poorest 1.3 billion people) who live in Middle Income Countries (MICs). Based on research by Andy Sumner,〔(Sumner, A. (2010a) 'Global Poverty and the New Bottom Billion: Three-quarters of the World's Poor Live in Middle-income Countries', ''IDS Working Paper 349'', Brighton: Institute of Development Studies ). Retrieved 3 January 2011〕〔(Sumner, A. (2010b) 'Global Poverty and the New Bottom Billion: What if Three-Quarters of the World's Poor Live in Middle-Income Countries?', ''IPC-UNDP Working Paper 74'', Brasilia: IPC-UNDP ). Retrieved 3 January 2011〕 a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, the New Bottom Billion raises serious questions about Paul Collier’s original Bottom Billion thesis, particularly in relation to its claims regarding the geographical distribution of global poverty. While Collier argued that the Bottom Billion are to be found in the poorest 60 or so economies,〔Collier, P. (2007) ''The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It'', New York: Oxford University Press〕 Sumner's research shows that the majority of the world's poor actually live in MICs such as China, India, Nigeria and Indonesia. The New Bottom Billion therefore suggests that poverty is not just a Low Income Country (LIC) problem, and that further policy discussions are called for. The New Bottom Billion has received significant coverage in a diverse range of independent sources, including (The Economist ), (OECD Insights ), and various third-party blogs (see External Links below). == Findings == Among the key findings - which are based on official World Bank data and country classifications, and are also consistent across monetary, nutritional and multidimensional poverty measures (see for example the Multidimensional Poverty Index) - Sumner’s research shows that: *While MICs account for 960 million of the world's poorest 1.3 billion people, LICs account for just 370 million. *Approximately two-thirds of the world’s poor live in stable MICs not affected by major violent conflict. Fragile LICs now account for just 12% of the world's poor. *About 23 per cent of the world’s poor live in fragile states if one takes the broadest definition of FCAS (43 countries), and they are split fairly evenly between fragile LICs and fragile MICs. Previous estimates put this figure significantly higher at around one-third. *While many of the New Bottom Billion live in China and India, the percentage of global poverty accounted for by MICs minus China and India has still risen considerably from 7 per cent to 22 per cent since 1990. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The New Bottom Billion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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