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 quot;povertyquot; 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 …

This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three … innovation, which is the establishment of a unique poverty level of utility and an appropriately modified set of Foster …-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures. With these tools in hand, the authors are able to calculate the change in the head-count of poverty, poverty …

The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world over 1981-2004. A clear trend … no sustained progress in reducing the number of poor, with rising poverty counts in some regions, notably Sub …-Saharan Africa. There are encouraging signs of progress in reducing the incidence of poverty in all regions after 2000, although it …

United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a … receive remittances, these resource flows do tend to reduce the level and depth of poverty. At the household level, a review …

trade policies would lift large numbers of developing country farm households out of poverty. In the majority of cases these … gains are not outweighed by the poverty-increasing effects of higher food prices among other households. Agricultural … analysis indicates that maximal trade-led poverty reductions occur when developing countries participate more fully in …

The relative contribution of a sector to poverty reduction is shown to depend on its direct and indirect growth effects …-agriculture by reviewing the literature and by analyzing cross-country national accounts and poverty data from household surveys …. Special attention is given to Sub-Saharan Africa. While the direct growth effect of agriculture on poverty reduction is likely …

The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and poverty … macroeconomic effects and microeconomic effects in terms of poverty, the authors use the representative household approach with … scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …