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 …

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …

wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies …

In this paper, we have two main objectives: to investigate the links between globalization and poverty observed in … Zambia during the 1990s, and to explore the poverty impacts of non-traditional export growth. We look at consumption and …

dimensions of poverty, and more concerned about the total number of poor than the incidence of poverty. In regard to inequality …

-exposure states by 10% and the incidence of wage poverty (the fraction of wage earners whose labor income would not sustain a family … of four at above-poverty consumption levels) in low-exposure states increased relative to high-exposure states by 7% …

globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …

political debate surrounding poverty. Policy changes included a radical shift in welfare policy, a sizable expansion in supports … plummeted, work rose dramatically among single parents, and poverty was reduced. At the same time, there are indications that …

Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both … official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty …, or policy-account for the observed changes in poverty in the two nations and what role could policy play in reducing …