This paper applies the recently published "Global Database on Intergenerational Mobility" to present a detailed picture of the chances of mobility around the world. The empirical results obtained from transition matrices and linear regression models, and based on harmonized data for education...

In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ('globalization'), associated with greater economic liberalization. The outcomes have been largely disappointing, even in the estimate of their designers. Rural livelihoods have become more...

Introduction / Bourguignon, Bussolo, Pereira da Silva -- Chap. 1: Winners and losers from trade reform in Morocco / Lokshin and Ravallion -- Chap. 2: A micro-macro assessment of the poverty impacts of the Doha and FTAA agenda for Latin America / Bussolo, Lay, van der Mensbrugghe -- Chap. 3:...