Globalisation is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are …

July 2000 - Poverty in the developing world will decline by roughly half by 2015 if current growth trends and policies … volumes of aid-that point the way to how the world could cut poverty in half in every major region. The fact that aid … world is not operating on the efficiency frontier. With the same level of concern, much more poverty reduction could be …

Theory and Recent Evidence', World Development, 33 (7), 1045-63 -- Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang (2005), 'Fifty Years of …Howard Pack (1994), 'Endogenous Growth Theory: Intellectual Appeal and Empirical Shortcomings', Journal of Economic … Survey', in Boris Pleskovic (ed) and Nicholas Stern (ed) (eds), Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2003 …