poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

We review the recent empirical literature on global poverty, focusing on key methodological aspects. These include the … choice of welfare indicator, poverty line and purchasing power parity exchange rates, equivalence scales, data sources, and …-household inequalities and potentially influencing poverty estimates. Based on a sensitivity analysis of global poverty estimates to …

This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply … statistical learning to large-scale country-level data obtained from the World Development Indicators and Google Earth Engine. The … methods are evaluated by withholding measured poverty rates and determining how accurately the methods predict the held …

progress is being made against poverty and inequality in the current period of quot;globalization.quot; Ravallion provides a … evidence suggests that if the rate of progress against absolute poverty in the developing world in the 1990s is maintained …-oriented debates on globalization and pro-poor growth.This paper - a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group - is part …

standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world …The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines … falling incidence of poverty globally over the last 30 years. This is mainly due to lower absolute poverty counts in the …

standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world.Institutional subscribers …The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines … falling incidence of poverty globally over the last 30 years. This is mainly due to lower absolute poverty counts in the …

This paper is the first to present panel data evidence on the longer-term impact of expansion of global value chains … and large-scale export-oriented farms in developing countries. Using panel data from two survey rounds covering a seven … estimate heterogeneous income effects using fixed effects quantile regression. We find that poverty and inequality reduced much …