The recent global food and financial crises have reversed the last decade's progress in reducing hunger and poverty …

conflict, while studies on the pro‐peace effects of religious factors are largely missing. Methodological challenges relate to …

poverty line. The patterns of growth, precarity, and structural change underlying the emergence of the world's two middles are … living above absolute poverty but below a security-from poverty-line. The paper sets out what has happened. It is argued that … although there has been substantial economic growth, only a relatively small group of the new middle-income countries have …