for half of economic growth. Finally, institutions can affect poverty and equity, although the effects seem generally …

leads to faster growth and poverty reduction in poor countries. To determine the effect of globalization on growth, poverty … translates on average into proportionate increases in incomes of the poor. Absolute poverty in the globalizing developing … the view that globalization leads to faster growth and poverty reduction in poor countries. This paper—a product of …

"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 …