The paper sets out two views of the facts about the effects of globalization on world poverty and inequality. The … bottom line: globalization is not the cause, but neither is it the solution to world poverty and inequality. The paper then …

social programs in virtually all countries, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. In this paper we ask the … – both in increasing growth and in directly reducing poverty. We define social policy broadly to include economy-wide (“macro …” and employment and other structural) policies that affect poverty and social justice in foreseeable ways, as well as …

, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. Integration into the global economy in the 1990s brought increased … paper the logic of going beyond the standard, poverty-targeted, elements of good social policy to a modern social contract …

Increasing integration has made the great challenge of reducing poverty and advancing human development more achievable … why good global economic governance matters for reducing poverty and inequality in the world, and then develop several …

Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to … analyze such movements are rare. In this paper we build on the methodology used to construct poverty maps to show how repeated … cross-sections of household survey data can allow inferences to be made about movements in and out of poverty. We illustrate …