Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s …. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …

conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the … central importance of economic growth for poverty reduction and illustrates the difficulty of identifying specific … also small relative to the variation in growth in average incomes, implying that the latter accounts for most of the …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

-specific dimensions, indicators, weights and cut-offs. This paper analyses the 2013 round of the multidimensional poverty and inequality …Research into multidimensional poverty has gathered momentum in the last half decade, most notably in the aftermath of … policy instruments. Multidimensional poverty theories have been vigorously advocated by some of the most thoughtful and hard …

world. It argues that the treatment of inequality in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is wholly insufficient due to …"This timely book documents and analyses the seriousness of growing national inequality in different regions around the …