Market transitions and the poor: new coalitions for economic reform? -- From emergency employment to social investment: politics, adjustment, and poverty in Chile -- The politics of protecting the poor during adjustment: Bolivia's emergency social fund -- The politics of reform without a safety...

The literature on the economics of happiness in developed economies finds discrepancies between reported measures of well-being and income measures. One is the so-called Easterlin paradox: that average happiness levels do not increase as countries grow wealthier. This article explores how that...

Editor's summary -- Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate Martin Ravallion -- Channels from globalization to inequality : productivity world versus factor world William Easterly -- Health in an age of globalization Angus Deaton -- Assessing the impact of globalization on...