World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 …

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

A number of economic studies have used a proxy for world real economic activity derived from shipping costs. This … with world output, and ability to predict commodity prices. I conclude that measures derived from world industrial …

developing world. While fewer people are poor by the global absolute standard, more are poor by the country-specific relative … standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world.Institutional subscribers …

Proponents of globalization often conclude that its critics are ignorant or self-motivated. In doing so, they have … missed a valuable opportunity to discover both how best to communicate the benefits of globalization, and how to improve on … the current model of globalization. This paper examines the values, beliefs and facts that lead critics to the view that …

growing literature on wealth inequality across the world. Evidence points towards a rise in global wealth concentration: for … financial globalization makes it increasingly hard to measure wealth at the top. I discuss how new data sources (leaks from …

argues that the likely impact of globalization on world inequality has been very different from what these simple …The world economy has become more unequal over the last two centuries. Since within- country inequality exhibits no … ubiquitous trend, it follows that virtually all of the observed rise in world income inequality has been driven by widening gaps …