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. …

relationship between economic and social globalization and absolute income poverty ex post. We use the globalization index … developed by Dreher (2006) and the World Bank poverty estimates. Using a fixed-effect panel based on five-year averages and … using a "long run" first difference regression, we find a robust negative correlation between globalization and poverty. We …

the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …

recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and … commercialization and transfer of technologies, and increased income inequality and concentration of severe poverty in certain regions …

gets clustered. Finally, NGOs select recipient countries with common traits related to religion or colonial history. Taken …

countries with respect to poverty reduction, the distribution of income within countries, the distribution of income between …

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 …

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