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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 …
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"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 …
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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 …. "--World Bank web site …
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"This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national …
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the dynamics of the cotton sector and the dynamics of poverty and evaluate to what extent cotton can work as a vehicle for … poverty alleviation. They find that cotton can indeed act as an effective mechanism for increased household welfare. They also … Zambian children. The impacts, however, are relatively small. "--World Bank web site …
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International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries to improve economic opportunity, has enormous implications for growth and welfare in both origin and destination countries. An important benefit to developing countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from...
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, this year's World Development Report, argues that services can be improved by putting poor people at the center of service … of the most important ways poor people can escape from poverty. To achieve these goals, economic growth and financial … resources are of course necessary, but they are not enough. The World Development Report provides a practical framework for …
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