-old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of countries in the Global South …-for example, to end poverty; (ii) proposes a new way to raise and govern international public funds; (iii) discusses the possible …

This paper examines income mobility in developing countries. We start by synthesizing findings from the available … evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic … panels constructed from cross-section data. We echo earlier literature in pointing to substantial movement across income …

In the presence of inequality a status-driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income-based and … nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in … integrate various strands of literature on status effects. -- inequality ; inter-temporal consumer choice ; utility ; poverty …