progress is being made against poverty and inequality in the current period of quot;globalization.quot; Ravallion provides a … differences in data sources and measurement assumptions. These differences are often hidden from view in the debate, but they need … evidence suggests that if the rate of progress against absolute poverty in the developing world in the 1990s is maintained …

How did we come to think that eliminating poverty is a legitimate goal for public policy? What policies emerged in the … hope of attaining that goal? The last 200 years have witnessed a dramatic change in thinking about poverty. Mainstream … economic thinking in the eighteenth century held that poverty was necessary and even desirable for a country's economic success …

pro-poor growth in an economy. An application is provided using data for China in the 1990s …