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 …

not always true for poverty. In Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana, Nicaragua, and Guatemala the extreme poverty headcount ratio is …

and poverty. Net direct and indirect taxes combined reduce the Gini coefficient by 0.0644 points and the headcount ratio … the elimination of energy subsidies. The main reduction in poverty occurs in rural areas, where the headcount ratio … declines from 44 to 23 percent. In urban areas, fiscally-induced poverty reduction is more modest: the headcount ratio declines …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … direct taxes targeted to the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal … policy increases poverty in four countries using US$1.25/day PPP poverty line, in 8 countries using US$2.50/day line, and 15 …

more labor mobility holds vastly more promise for reducing poverty than anything else on the development agenda. That said … than the potential gains from directed individual interventions and the poverty reduction gains from large, extended … global poverty …

allow them to achieve sustainable growth; and promote a new way of assisting poor countries focused on home-grown poverty … sustained growth and poverty reduction, originally envisioned. An adequate amount of predictable debt relief can be an extremely …

allow them to achieve sustainable growth; and promote a new way of assisting poor countries focused on home-grown poverty … sustained growth and poverty reduction, originally envisioned. An adequate amount of predictable debt relief can be an extremely …

, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances …