"An overview of the economic development of and policies intended to combat poverty around the world." …"While there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years … greater progress against poverty in the developing world in recent times-indeed, a faster pace of progress against extreme …

Two tradeoffs have been widely seen to severely constrain the scope for attacking poverty using redistributive … against both transient and chronic poverty. However, the same factors that weaken the tradeoffs also suggest that efficient … redistributive policies might look rather different to the programs often found in practice. This paper - a product of the Poverty …