, conceptual and empirical contributions which address relevant areas that enhance extant knowledge on linkages between poverty …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz … in global miserliness over the last 30 years. -- Miser index ; poverty ; affluence ; inequality ; development …

the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …

poverty for a panel of 35 developed and 79 developing countries over the period 1984-2013 using two-stage least squares … institutions mitigate poverty, with the latter being more efficient than the former. The institutions strengthen the ability of the … financial system to alleviate poverty. Further, the empirics state that both access(outreach) and depth (credit extension) of …

-being, poverty, growth or aid effectiveness. However, there has been little empirical analysis that tests these relationships …

-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post … poverty gap in Central and Eastern Europe, while generous welfare policies, specifically higher levels of spending on pensions …