the priority given to absolute poverty in poor countries. The pattern of externalities also suggests that there will be … too much poverty and inequality in this economy, even judged solely from the point of view of aggregate efficiency …

countries to assess the impacts of changes in global food prices on poverty in individual countries and for the world as a whole …. The analysis finds that food price increases unrelated to productivity changes in developing countries raise poverty in … output. As a result, higher food prices appear to lower global poverty in the long run …

raise the world poverty headcount by an average of 24 million. The adverse poverty impact of the duty is larger when the …

data are deceptive. The program entails a nominal 100 percent benefit withdrawal rate -- a poverty trap. However, the paper …

to estimate the combined impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The … analysis finds that the actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net … effect was to increase global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different …

such social effects on welfare call for a reconsideration of how we assess global poverty, but they do not support standard … measures of relative poverty. The paper argues instead for using a weakly-relative measure as the upper-bound complement to the … lower-bound provided by a standard absolute measure. New estimates of global poverty are presented, drawing on 850 household …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank?s twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … pervasive than we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since …