Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty counts is that there are no economies of … of global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative …

winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are …What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the … national growth: pro-poor growth (e.g. Ethiopia); pro-middle growth (e.g. Brazil); anti-poor growth (e.g. Nigeria); anti …

Modern bioenergy is a core ingredient of sustainable economic development as it plays an important role in poverty … reduction and green growth. This makes bioenergy innovations critical, especially in developing countries where many households … stimulate modern bioenergy innovation in order to achieve multiple-win outcomes in terms of poverty alleviation, improved health …