leads to faster growth and poverty reduction in poor countries. To determine the effect of globalization on growth, poverty … the view that globalization leads to faster growth and poverty reduction in poor countries. This paper—a product of …(June 2001) - The evidence from individual cases and from cross-country analysis supports the view that globalization …

"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 …

"This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national …