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 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …

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 …

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 …

globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti …

, 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 …

these episodes to examine the idea that the lower tail of the wealth distribution reflects in part a wealth-based poverty …

-country voters optimally elect a populist promising to end globalization. Countries with more inequality, higher financial …

Which income group is pro-globalization or anti-globalization--the wealthy skilled-labor or the poor low-skilled labor …? How globalization affect income-based attitudes towards globalization? The paper addresses these issues in the framework … of a small open economy which trades in goods and financial securities with the rest of the world. Income-based political …