of per capita income has important implications for the relative roles of income growth and inequality changes in poverty … reduction. When poverty reduction is the overriding policy objective, poorer and relatively equal countries may be willing to … tolerate modest increases in income inequality in exchange for faster growth-more so than richer and highly unequal countries …

Globalisation is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are …, it also contains significant risks. Associated with international integration are concerns about increasing inequality …, shifting power, and cultural uniformity. Globalization, Growth, and Poverty focuses on globalisation in terms of growing …

report assesses its impact and examines these anxieties. Global integration is already a powerful force for poverty reduction …-scale poverty reduction. The second finding concerns inclusion both across countries and within them; the authors highlight a range …

"An apparent temporary narrowing of income inequality has been observed during several recent banking crises. But it …

The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …