The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …

The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how … both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 … equality and poverty reduction. The interaction of human rights with official development assistance and trade flows shows that …

The data available for assessing the current status and trends of global poverty has significantly improved. And yet … serious contentions remain. At the same time, a set of recent papers has sought to use these datasets to make poverty … even current) global poverty even though their estimates are all derived from the same basic (PPP and distribution …

This paper considers the effectiveness and efficiency of global growth, as a route to poverty reduction, since 1990 and … then demonstrates the redistributive challenges implicit in various poverty lines and scenarios: the significance being … that this historical data can inform understanding and appreciation of what it would involve to end global poverty in the …

This paper makes new estimates of global poverty and inequality in 2012 using both ‘old', 2005 and ‘new', 2011 … of 2011 PPP data to estimate global poverty and inequality, at least for comparison purposes …

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty, there are a number of challenges …

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19's impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF's April … recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction. Our baseline case suggests that globally the number of people … Development. The fallout from the pandemic will also exacerbate the geographic concentration of poverty, as exemplified by the …