poverty. But they did not create a legalized institutional regime, in which precise obligations would be delegated to specific … the causes and remedies of global poverty. Their formulation and implementation should also draw on national institutions …

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

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 quot;povertyquot; 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 …

. Further, there is now a consensus on adopting more ambitious goals on poverty reduction. Defining social protection as a … collection of programs that address risk, vulnerability, inequality and poverty through a system of transfers in cash or in kind …: Indicators of Resilience and Equity (ASPIRE) data set. Focusing on the goal of ending poverty, the paper estimates that social …

that the cross-country allocations of aggregate trust fund aid are poverty- and policy-selective. In this respect, they are … and education aid are poverty selective and positively correlated with the World Bank's assessment of the quality of … countries'sector policies, while environmental trust funds are neither poverty selective nor correlated with the assessed …