This paper examines developments in Albania’s income distribution and poverty during the transition to a market … consumption data, however, a large decline in urban real incomes is implausible. Poverty in both the urban and the rural …

. These crises affect poverty and the distribution of income through a variety of channels: slowdowns in economic activity … incidence of poverty and income distribution, and discusses policy options that can be considered by governments in the … with an increase in poverty and, in some cases, income inequality. The provison of targeted safety nets and the protection …

The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund, with substantive inputs from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …

Efforts to liberalize world trade are increasingly focusing on strengthening the links between low-income countries … developing countries to choose fuller participation in the world trading system …

The 2008 crisis underscored the interconnectedness of the international business cycle, with U.S. shocks leading to the … shocks in the VAR and (uniquely, to our knowledge) the associated uncertainty. Our results suggest that the international …