@inbook{10.7864/j.ctt127wcw.5,
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt127wcw.5},
 abstract = {Grinding poverty is the lot of nearly half of the world’s population. More than 2.5 billion human beings subsist on less than $2 a day—$730 a year—the equivalent of seven pairs of quality sneakers in the United States.¹ Poverty is more widespread than previously thought. Even before the recent global financial crisis, an estimated 1.4 billion people lived in extreme poverty (defined by the World Bank as less than $1.25 a day), up from the previous estimate of 1 billion.² The percentage of people in the developing world living below the international poverty line has dropped from 52},
 booktitle = {Confronting Poverty: Weak States and U.S. National Security},
 pages = {23--41},
 publisher = {Brookings Institution Press},
 title = {Poverty and State Weakness},
 year = {2010}
}