Empirical evidence in the sparse literature on poverty convergence currently relies on cross-sectional analysis, where … Less Developed Countries (LDCs) starting out poorer are found to have enjoyed no faster subsequent poverty reduction during … the past three decades than those starting out richer, as initial poverty retards growth and makes it less effective in …

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

Poverty is typically measured in different ways in developing and advanced countries. The majority of developing … countries measure poverty in absolute terms, using a poverty line determined by the monetary cost of a predetermined basket of … goods. In contrast, most analyses of poverty in advanced countries, including the majority of OECD countries and Eurostat …

Is China-Africa economic relation instrumental for capital flight and poverty reduction in FZ? Does it matter in the … capital flight and poverty reduction in FZ. The construction of a theoretical framework highlighting stylized fact and the … as capital flight and; (b) The capital flight contributes to improving the level of poverty in Africa. Overall, we can …

Empirical evidence in the sparse literature on poverty convergence currently relies on cross-sectional analysis, where … Less Developed Countries (LDCs) starting out poorer are found to have enjoyed no faster subsequent poverty reduction during … the past three decades than those starting out richer, as initial poverty retards growth and makes it less effective in …

We review the relationship between trade and poverty in less developed countries, surveying both relevant economic … can lead to poverty reduction, these circumstances do not always obtain. Trade liberalization will only be an effective … instrument of poverty reduction under specific structural conditions. There may be more direct and effective means of attaining …

We review the origins of the dollar-a-day poverty line, discuss historical poverty and inequality trends, and forecast … poverty rates until 2030 using a new fractional response approach. Three findings stand out. First, global poverty reduction … since 1981 has been rapid but regional trends are heterogeneous. Second, the pace of poverty reduction at 1.25 a day will …

(CVAS) analysis to the Philippines in the years 1995-2020 using the latest TiVA 2023 dataset (released in November 2023) and …