for half of economic growth. Finally, institutions can affect poverty and equity, although the effects seem generally …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …

, increased wealth in the rich country can stunt investment in the poor country …

leads to faster growth and poverty reduction in poor countries. To determine the effect of globalization on growth, poverty … translates on average into proportionate increases in incomes of the poor. Absolute poverty in the globalizing developing … the view that globalization leads to faster growth and poverty reduction in poor countries. This paper—a product of …

Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international … do so by exploiting variation in parental wealth and in expected inheritance by birth order, gender composition of … siblings, and region. We find that wealth discouraged migration in this era, suggesting that the poor could be more likely to …

in New York City, suggesting that similar image data can be used to map wealth and poverty in previously unmeasured areas …

"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 "poverty" 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 the …

"This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … poverty impacts of these DDA scenarios. The focus countries include Bangladesh, Brazil (two studies), Cameroon, China (two … poverty link. It does, however, limit the ability to draw broader conclusions. Thus an additional study provides a 15-country …