infrastructure improvements on Belt and Road Initiative and non-Belt and Road Initiative countries' trade flows, growth, and poverty …, the Belt and Road Initiative could contribute to lifting 8.7 million people from extreme poverty and 34 million from … moderate poverty. Third, the initiative would lead to a modest increase in global carbon dioxide emissions, with a complex set …

ambitious trade reform can result in larger gains in gross domestic product, poverty reduction, and exports, particularly in …

The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also … acknowledge a deep identification problem when the latent norms defining poverty vary systematically across countries. Welfare … model of relative-income comparisons calibrated to data on national poverty lines. Both bounds indicate falling global …

trends scenario. Finally, rebalancing reduces the prevalence of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the isolated … negative effects of China's slowdown, which slightly increase the incidence of poverty. Overall, China's slowdown and … poverty, but the extent of this varies by country …

business services. The paper assesses the poverty and shared prosperity impacts of deep integration to reduce these three types … in the macroeconomic variables that impact poverty and shared prosperity. The model estimates are used in the Global … Income Distribution Dynamics microsimulation model to obtain assessments of the changes in the poverty headcount and shared …

poverty. The comprehensive assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …

empirically examines whether growth of India's secondary towns or big cities mattered more to recent rural poverty reduction …-effects model of poverty measures for rural India, calibrated to a panel of 59 regions observed four times over 1993-2012. The … expansion of lit area had greater effect on the rural poverty measures than did intensive margin growth in the brightness of …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …

Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …