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 … the developing world and the US. Across developing countries, a higher mean income comes with a higher floor. The bulk of …

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 … hybrid social protection policy, which devotes resources to funding “state of the world contingent transfers” (SWCTs) to …

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 … corn prices. Taken together, the evidence suggests that a reduction in rich-country agricultural support that raises world …

central case analysis, revenues from globally internalizing carbon pricing rise to 7% and then fall to 5% of gross world …

standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world.Institutional subscribers …The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines … falling incidence of poverty globally over the last 30 years. This is mainly due to lower absolute poverty counts in the …

climatic changes on economic activity throughout the world. We find three primary results. First, higher temperatures …

This paper considers the long-run patterns of poverty in the United States from the early 1960s to 2010. Our results … contradict previous studies that have argued that poverty has shown little improvement over time or that anti-poverty efforts … have been ineffective. We find that moving from traditional income-based measures of poverty to a consumption-based measure …

-term rates of poverty reduction in the world, due to both economic growth and falling inequality. Did ethnic inequality fall … (majority) of “Bumiputera” (mainly Malays). Since then, Malaysia's official poverty measures indicate one of the fastest long … since 1969 and was that a key factor in the country's success in reducing poverty and in managing inequality? New measures …