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

countries on poverty and average incomes in poor countries. We find no support in the cross-country analysis for the claim that … OECD polices worsen poverty in developing countries. To better understand what might drive these results, we turn to …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …

Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries …. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public … vulnerable, but non-poor households in the wake of negative shocks, can result in lower rates of poverty in the medium term than …

Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not … all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review …

Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …

The United Nations Human Development Index (HDI) is arguably the most widely used alternative to gross domestic product …

Recent research suggests that rates of extreme poverty, commonly defined as living on less than $2/person/day, are high … and rising in the United States. We re-examine the rate of extreme poverty by linking 2011 data from the Survey of Income … and Program Participation and Current Population Survey, the sources of recent extreme poverty estimates, to …

standalone market indexes. Reclassifications from one index to another require thousands of investors to decide how to react. We … substantially overshoot between the announcement and effective dates--prices fall when a market moves from an index with more …