poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …

This paper argues that both openness and poverty in a country are endogenously determined by the country’s long …

China's remarkable poverty alleviation is quite uneven across regions in the last quarter of the century. It is … important to explore why China has such huge disparity in poverty distribution in spite of overall dramatic economic growth and … the issue of regional disparities in poverty distribution in China. It finds an increasing concentration of the rural poor …