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 …

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

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 …

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 …

used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in … statistical procedures in poor countries understate the rate of global poverty reduction, and overstate growth in the world …The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen … person in the world. We then estimate the gaussian kernel density function for the worldwide distribution of income. We …

We test the view the large differences in income levels we see across the world are due to differences in underlying … characteristics, i.e. fundamental forces, against the alternative that there are poverty traps. Taking geographical variables as … fundamental characteristics, we find that we can reject fundamental forces in favor of a poverty trap model with high and low …

available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of …