development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

of poverty. In this paper, we discuss the framework used in economics to model parental investments and early childhood …

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 …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …

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

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …

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