, in a global dataset spanning 118 countries over the past four decades, changes in the share of income of the poorest … quintiles are generally small and uncorrelated with changes in average income. The variation in changes in quintile shares is … variation in income growth in the poorest quintiles. These findings hold across most regions and time periods and when …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 … percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen …, propelled by the rural-urban income gap and by the growing disparity between highly educated urban professionals and the urban …

Social welfare functions that assign weights to individuals based on their income levels can be used to document the …

poverty. This paper documents five trends in the modern era of globalization, starting around 1980. Trend #1: Poor country … to contradict trend #4, but it does not because wages are a small part of household income in developing countries, which … poverty reduction are strongest in the developing countries in which there has been the most rapid integration with the global …

More effective development aid could greatly improve poverty reduction in the areas where poverty reduction is expected …, aid flows respond to policy improvements that create a better environment for poverty reduction and effective use of aid …-that point the way to how the world could cut poverty in half in every major region. The fact that aid increases the benefits of …

When average income rises, the average incomes of the poorest fifth of society rise proportionately. This is a … consequence of the strong empirical regularity that the share of income accruing to the bottom quintile does not vary … systematically with average income. The authors document this empirical regularity in a sample of 92 countries spanning the past four …

growth and poverty reduction in poor countries. To determine the effect of globalization on growth, poverty, and inequality … changes in the income share of the poorest-or between changes in trade volumes and changes in household income inequality … proportionate increases in incomes of the poor. Absolute poverty in the globalizing developing economies has fallen sharply in the …