Against what standards should we judge the developing world's overall performance against poverty going forward? The …. The first measure is absolute consumption poverty, as judged by what "poverty" means in the poorest countries. The second … is a new measure of global poverty combining absolute poverty with country-specific social inclusion needs, consistently …

Fiscal federalism theorists have long been intrigued by the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty … provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty. It focuses on how the function … of institutional quality can explain the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty in 53 developing …

Modern bioenergy is a core ingredient of sustainable economic development as it plays an important role in poverty … stimulate modern bioenergy innovation in order to achieve multiple-win outcomes in terms of poverty alleviation, improved health …

Economic growth is essential, though not sufficient, for poverty reduction in developing countries. Research based on … contribute to economic growth, and thus can help many poor people escape poverty. However, the domestic environment has to be … conducive to realizing the poverty-reduction benefits of increased trade. Complementary domestic policies and institutions …

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the …