The present study uses the GIDD, a CGE-microsimulation model for Global Income Distribution Dynamics, to understand the … assumptions, there will be a reduction in global income inequality by 2030. This potential reduction can be fully accounted for by … suggest that the mid-1990s could be seen as a turning point after which global inequality began showing a negative tendency. …

. The results are fed into a detailed household survey-based micro-simulation model to assess impacts on poverty and income … although it would still help reduce rural poverty. …

This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …

The theory and evidence supporting a relativist approach to poverty measurement are critically reviewed. Various …, implying a relative poverty measure. The paper then reviews the problems encountered in testing for welfare effects of relative …