the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy … responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising food prices are likely to lead to higher poverty in sub … that anti-poverty interventions ought to retain their focus on rural areas where poverty remains highest even after taking …

"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 …

dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … liberalization of agriculture and food could increase global extreme poverty (US …

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 …