its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock … interacts with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In … particular, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty …

aversion. Illustrations based on data for Indonesia in the 1990s show a strong link between growth and poverty reduction in … that country. A decomposition of the observed poverty outcomes reveals the extent to which changes in inequality have … blunted the poverty impacts of both growth and contraction. Finally, the results also demonstrate that absolute and relative …

"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 …