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 …

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 …

have argued that trade makes war less likely, yet World War I erupted at a time of unprecedented globalization. This paper …

can be viewed as a form of economic sanction and has two advantages over most sanctions: it helps rather than hurts the … greater incentives to judge truthfully. A similar approach could be used to reduce moral hazard associated with World Bank and …

Theoretical models have suggested that sanctions may be important for enforcing sovereign debt contracts (Bulow and … Rogoff, 1989a, 1989b). This paper examines the role of sanctions in promoting debt repayment during the classical gold … standard period. We analyze a wide range of sanctions including gunboat diplomacy, external fiscal control over a country …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

-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 …