Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition …

previous round of PPP data from 2005 led to a large increase in the estimated number of poor in the world. The 2011 price data … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set …

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

World Bank's international poverty line of USD1.90/day, at 2011 purchasing power parity, is based on a collection of …

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World … Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the …

negotiation, formation, and rules of international trade agreements. Among other changes, China's 2001 accession to the World … explanations for these puzzling results as well as potential implications for the sustainability of the rules of the world trading …