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 …

, but on net reduce urban poverty. Second, we expand the analysis of distributional effects beyond looking just at the … poverty threshold. We do not find that living wages increase the depth of poverty among families that remain poor, and we find … that families somewhat below and somewhat above the poverty line are also helped by living wages. Finally, we suggest that …

offset the cost of health care live in families with incomes twice the poverty line or more and, depending on how coverage is …