, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the … negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It … points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of …

of per capita income has important implications for the relative roles of income growth and inequality changes in poverty … reduction. When poverty reduction is the overriding policy objective, poorer and relatively equal countries may be willing to …

trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and … poverty line that would accompany various reform scenarios. When accompanied by additional information about the elasticity of … poverty with respect to income, this provides an estimate of the change in poverty by country. Under most liberalization …

by disproportionately boosting the income of the poor and therefore reduces poverty. This result is robust to controlling …

poverty. This paper documents five trends in the modern era of globalization, starting around 1980. Trend #1: Poor country … poverty reduction are strongest in the developing countries in which there has been the most rapid integration with the global …

global warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While … studies consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … chronic poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic …