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 …

The authors examine the empirical evidence in support of the poverty trap view of underdevelopment. They calibrate … simple aggregate growth models in which poverty traps can arise due to either low saving or low technology at low levels of … development. They then use these models to assess the empirical relevance of poverty traps and their consequences for policy. The …

The Millennium Development Goals set quantitative targets for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education … necessary to increase economic growth so as to reduce income poverty, the other by estimating the cost of meeting specific goals …

This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply … statistical learning to large-scale country-level data obtained from the World Development Indicators and Google Earth Engine. The … methods are evaluated by withholding measured poverty rates and determining how accurately the methods predict the held …

Multidimensional poverty measures can in theory make well-being comparisons that are less biased than those solely … based on monetary poverty. However, global multidimensional poverty measures suffer in practice from limitations that have … led to credible criticisms. This paper presents the case for multidimensional poverty measures, two criticisms against …

developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …

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 …

This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national …

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