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 …

trends scenario. Finally, rebalancing reduces the prevalence of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the isolated … negative effects of China's slowdown, which slightly increase the incidence of poverty. Overall, China's slowdown and … poverty, but the extent of this varies by country …

poverty reduction will depend on several factors. The outlook will likely be good if African countries can continue the gains … economy additionally by 22 percent by 2030 relative to the base case and reduce poverty by an additional 51 million people …

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

After an impressive acceleration in growth and poverty reduction since the mid-1990s, many African countries continue …

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 …

This paper assesses the potential impact of antimicrobial resistance on global economic growth and poverty. The … poverty. Under the high antimicrobial resistance scenario, by 2030, an additional 24.1 million people would be extremely poor …

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 …