the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …

explicitly recognise the direct linkage between energy access and consumption and poverty and development. This evolution of the … development agenda is closely related to an expanded understanding of poverty, as it moves beyond a monetary definition, to be … alleviating extreme poverty. However, what remains unclear is the impact that poverty reduction will have on worldwide energy …

Proponents of the income-based approach to poverty rarely contest the fact that poverty is actually a multidimensional … phenomenon. What they claim is that economic resources provide a sufficiently precise proxy for whatever dimensions poverty might … have. The indirect assumption is that all dimensions of poverty are highly correlated and thus can be substituted by just …

performance of the 1980s. In particular, poverty and inequality indicators have improved dramatically, especially since the late …

Various recent papers have sought to make projections about the scale and locations of global poverty in the next 20 to … objectives of future aid. However, these papers have produced some very different projections for global poverty so that a … complex and rather inconsistent picture has emerged. Estimating even current global poverty levels is problematic for a range …