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 …

While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods … considerable doubt on the meaning of widely-used summary measures such as subjective poverty rates. Nonetheless, under the … poverty and welfare …

that the cross-country allocations of aggregate trust fund aid are poverty- and policy-selective. In this respect, they are … and education aid are poverty selective and positively correlated with the World Bank's assessment of the quality of … countries'sector policies, while environmental trust funds are neither poverty selective nor correlated with the assessed …

development community has made a call for a new international development goal of eradication of extreme poverty by 2030. How … 2030)? This paper presents a base case scenario with the International Futures model that forecasts a 32 percent poverty … scenario produces a forecast of a 20 percent extreme poverty rate for this group of countries. The paper then explores the …