This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …

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

Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries …. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public … vulnerable, but non-poor households in the wake of negative shocks, can result in lower rates of poverty in the medium term than …

countries on poverty and average incomes in poor countries. We find no support in the cross-country analysis for the claim that … OECD polices worsen poverty in developing countries. To better understand what might drive these results, we turn to …

technology, opportunity costs of research limit the role induced innovation can play. Moreover, since the backstop technology …

patent policy are few. Possible reasons for these limited results are discussed, and possible avenues for future research are …