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

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

We test the view the large differences in income levels we see across the world are due to differences in underlying … characteristics, i.e. fundamental forces, against the alternative that there are poverty traps. Taking geographical variables as … fundamental characteristics, we find that we can reject fundamental forces in favor of a poverty trap model with high and low …

, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen … person in the world. We then estimate the gaussian kernel density function for the worldwide distribution of income. We …

available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of …