developed by Dreher (2006) and the World Bank poverty estimates. Using a fixed-effect panel based on five-year averages and …Using panel data from more than 100 countries around the world from 1988 through 2007, this paper examines the … relationship between economic and social globalization and absolute income poverty ex post. We use the globalization index …

Of the world's 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars … scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the world's people is one of the most serious problems facing humankind … today. Unemployment (defined below) befalls about 200 million of the world's people - a sizeable number but small compared …

absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

This paper discusses how household panel surveys can be informative about the intergenerational transmission of poverty … have been used to examine the intergenerational transmission of poverty when using household panel surveys. Finally, we … is on panel surveys from developed countries, we also briefly consider data availability in developing countries. We set …

trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty … is scrutinized, link by link. The paper then moves on to examine other channels in the globalization-poverty nexus that … channels and linkages through which globalization affects the poor. After introducing four different concepts used to measure …