"The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line …-fifths came from Asia, and half from China. Most of the new entrants remained fairly close to poverty, with incomes now bunched up …

"Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured … poverty does not fall when all incomes grow at the same rate. This stems from the (implicit) assumption in past measures that … roles of certain private expenditures in poor settings and with data on national poverty lines. The authors propose a new …

liberalization of agriculture and food could increase global extreme poverty (US …"This paper assesses the potential impacts of the removal of agriculture trade distortions using a newly developed … dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that …

assessment of the direct and indirect impacts of higher prices on global poverty using a representative sample of 63 to 93 … that the implied increase in the extreme poverty headcount at the global level is 1.7 percentage points, with significant …) could raise global poverty in 2010 by 0.6 percentage points at the extreme poverty line and 0.9 percentage points at the …

"Seasonal poverty in Bangladesh, locally known as monga, refers to seasonal deprivation of food during the pre … labor markets has helped reduce seasonality in income and poverty in regions other than Rangpur in the recent past. Hence … targeted poor to contain income seasonality and poverty in this impoverished part of Bangladesh. "--World Bank web site …

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

specifications. Unpacking the findings, the analysis finds that moving out of agriculture is correlated with much higher growth than … staying in agriculture, although growth is always higher in any sector if one physically moves. Economic mobility is strongly …

"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 …