poverty. This paper documents five trends in the modern era of globalization, starting around 1980. Trend #1: Poor country …One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and … developing world economy grew at more than 3.5 percent per capita in the 1990s. Trend #2: The number of poor people in the world …

points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of …, 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 …

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 …

uses a database assembled by the World Bank Group to investigate some basic characteristics of shared prosperity …

about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results … and poverty-reducing effects, even after imputations for the potential home earnings of migrants. …

China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a … remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …

explores the impact of this structural change in the rate of poverty reduction and concludes that it is far from negligible. …

the 1990s. They draw on the findings of a series of studies on poverty dynamics that use the better data sets now … available. The authors begin by taking a broad view of poverty, tracing changes in both income poverty and in other more direct … measures of individual welfare. Experiences have been varied: several countries have seen a sharp decline in poverty, while …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. According to this definition there are three potential … sources of pro-poor growth: (1) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (2) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in … average incomes; and (3) a poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. The author empirically decomposes changes …