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 …

's employment share declined, but most new jobs were in services. Concurrently, poverty incidence declined dramatically. Income …. Economic growth combined with structural change contributed to poverty reduction, but the magnitude of this impact depends … heavily on the poverty line used in calculating poverty. The Thai data support the Kuznets hypothesis of an inverted U …

its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …

Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the …

. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming. We use recent household …

growth, poverty, and human development indicators. We identify key weaknesses, including lack of structural transformation …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … refugees in Chad, combining survey and administrative data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The …