rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …

of the usual Gini coefficient. The results are strongly supportive of the factor-proportions theory of trade and suggest …

estimates of the impact of adjustment on poverty using household income and expenditure surveys currently available in LDCs. It … proposes the use of decomposable poverty indices as a tractable vehicle for calculating the impact of adjustment on overall … poverty. This framework does require, however, reasonably disaggregated data on income distribution. …

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …

extent to which the barriers faced by SSA exporters to the rest of the world are biased in favor of poor or rich households … trade protection on SSA's export bundle by the rest of the world. Results suggest that SSA's own trade policy is biased in …

Two decades ago, 93% of the world’s poor lived in countries officially classified as Low Income (LICs). Now, 72% of the … world’s poor live in Middle Income Countries (MICs). The dramatic shift has been brought about by fast growth in a number of … global poor for many years to come. This “new geography of global poverty”—with the mass of the poor living in stable, non …

We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world’s largest community-based development program--China’s flagship … poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory …