This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …

The World Bank has recently adopted a target of reducing the proportion of population living below US$1.25 a day at … poverty rate of 2030 modifying Ravallion (2013)'s approach in that it introduces country-specific economic and population … obstacles to meeting the target and proposes a simple intermediate growth target under which the global poverty rate can be …

This paper assesses the potential impact of antimicrobial resistance on global economic growth and poverty. The … world without antimicrobial resistance, the losses during 2015?50 may sum to $85 trillion in gross domestic product and $23 … poverty. Under the high antimicrobial resistance scenario, by 2030, an additional 24.1 million people would be extremely poor …

In 2013, the World Bank adopted two goals: First, reduce global extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. Second, promote … percentage points faster than the mean, the World Bank's poverty goal is achieved with the global poverty falling to below 3 … simulates the global poverty headcount under three growth scenarios for the bottom 40 percent up to 2030. The analysis deploys a …

and education aid are poverty selective and positively correlated with the World Bank's assessment of the quality of …Over the past decade, donors of foreign aid quadrupled their annual contributions to trust funds at the World Bank … alignment of trust funds with the performance-based allocations of aid by the International Development Association, the World …

This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates … of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different … levels of initial poverty. The analysis uses country panel-data for 1980-2010. The results indicate that, as countries become …

Against what standards should we judge the developing world's overall performance against poverty going forward? The …. The first measure is absolute consumption poverty, as judged by what "poverty" means in the poorest countries. The second … is a new measure of global poverty combining absolute poverty with country-specific social inclusion needs, consistently …

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 …

This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition -- food security; adequate … environment -- on their own and interactively are correlated with nutrition outcomes, such as height-for-age z-scores. Based on … each component of the three underlying drivers of nutrition. In spite of the limitations inherent in the available data …