For many years poverty reduction was the overarching welfare objective of a wide range of development institutions and … increasingly set for itself more specific welfare objectives by distinguishing between monetary poverty, food security, nutrition …, agricultural productivity, literacy rates, fertility rates, and health burdens all share fairly robust relationships with poverty …

This paper provides new evidence on the globalization‒poverty nexus. We innovate by using an indicator of … globalization in the food sector, finding evidence of a significantly aggravating impact on poverty prev-alence, adding to earlier … have accounted for approximately 2 additional percentage points of the population living below the absolute poverty line of …