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 …

health workers in rural Burkina Faso provides strong evidence that the interaction of effort costs, ability, and intrinsic … and extrinsic incentives significantly influences service delivery to the poor. Health workers reviewed video vignettes of … on effort than bonuses to serve the nonpoor; health workers who receive equal bonuses to serve poor and nonpoor patients …

The World Bank Group recently adopted two overarching goals -- the end of extreme, chronic poverty in the world by 2030 … closely related to the age-old debate on growth versus direct welfare interventions as instruments for countering poverty. The … paper analyzes past trends on poverty and tries to shed new light on this old debate …

middle (the rural nonfarm economy and secondary towns) yields more inclusive growth patterns and faster poverty reduction … for faster poverty reduction …

The debate on the environment-poverty nexus is inconclusive, with past research unable to identify the causal dynamics …. This paper uses a unique global panel data set that links (survey and census derived) poverty data to measures of … degree environmental quality matters for poverty reduction. The paper draws three main conclusions. (1) The environment …