"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 …

authors assess the impact of policy shocks on poverty by using partial growth elasticities. They perform various policy … growth and poverty reduction in Niger. This paper--a product of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management 3, Africa Technical … Families--is part of a larger effort in the region to formulate country-specific growth strategies"--World Bank web site …

for half of economic growth. Finally, institutions can affect poverty and equity, although the effects seem generally … poorly and both could benefit from substantial reform. "--World Bank web site …

, influences the extent of poverty today and the prospects for rapid poverty reduction in the future. "--World Bank web site … poverty in terms of consumption (or income) is the overriding issue in poor countries, and (2) the only thing that really … matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of economic growth. The author takes (1) as given but questions (2 …

. Does foreign direct investment support sound development? In particular, does it contribute to poverty reduction? …