The data available for assessing the current status and trends of global poverty has significantly improved. And yet … serious contentions remain. At the same time, a set of recent papers has sought to use these datasets to make poverty … even current) global poverty even though their estimates are all derived from the same basic (PPP and distribution …

This paper considers the effectiveness and efficiency of global growth, as a route to poverty reduction, since 1990 and … then demonstrates the redistributive challenges implicit in various poverty lines and scenarios: the significance being … that this historical data can inform understanding and appreciation of what it would involve to end global poverty in the …

While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty, there are a number of challenges …

This paper makes new estimates of global poverty and inequality in 2012 using both ‘old', 2005 and ‘new', 2011 … of 2011 PPP data to estimate global poverty and inequality, at least for comparison purposes …

but because some people lacked entitlements to that food. Is a similar situation now the case for global poverty, meaning … that national resources are available but not being used to end poverty? This paper argues that approximately three …-quarters of global poverty, at least at the lower poverty lines, could now be eliminated — in principle — via redistribution of …

This paper updates the distribution of global poverty data and makes projections up to 2020. The paper asks the … already live in countries where the total cost of ending extreme poverty is not prohibitively high as a percentage of GDP. And … to end at least extreme poverty. This would imply a reframing of global poverty as largely a matter of domestic …

, however, poverty has not fallen so dramatically; as a result, most of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries … MICs. As the global distribution of poverty has shifted to middle-income countries, so has the global disease burden … global health funders. The paper describes trends in the global distribution of poverty, preventable infectious diseases, and …

social programs in virtually all countries, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. In this paper we ask the … difference - both in increasing growth and in directly reducing poverty. We define social policy broadly to include economy …-wide (quot;macroquot; and employment and other structural) policies that affect poverty and social justice in foreseeable ways …

not always true for poverty. In Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana, Nicaragua, and Guatemala the extreme poverty headcount ratio is …