An important channel through which globalization affects poverty is introducing new technologies to developing …

standard measures of poverty and inequality and reported assessments of welfare in countries in the process of integrating into … captured by money metric measures, such as vulnerability to poverty among the near poor and distributional shifts at the local …

considers the separate issue of the impact of globalization on poverty through quantifying explicitly the responsiveness of … poverty to aggregate changes in income distribution. We illustrate the quantitative importance of such an approach through … decomposing poverty trends observed in the six major developing regions over the period 1980-98 under the assumption of a log …

process of globalization affects different aspects and dimensions of poverty in the developing world. It examines how these … numerous channels interact, as the net effects on poverty depend on the relative strength of the positive and negative forces …

that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

contrast, there is little observed relationship between mental health and poverty or education, common measures of socio … impact on mental health than overall levels of poverty. This may have important implications for social protection policy …

question by using new data on such variables as the skill composition of migrants, poverty, and interest and exchange rates to … countries which export a larger proportion of low-skilled migrants. It also finds that the level of poverty in a labor …