subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point … decline in national poverty between 2005 and 2011, while rural poverty increased marginally. In this study we estimate an … alternative set of regional poverty lines using a cost of basic needs method that allows the consumption bundle to vary spatially …

Consumption, Output and Distribution -- Chapter 4: Global Poverty by Different Poverty Lines since the Cold War -- Chapter 5: The … End of Global Poverty -- Chapter 6: Conclusion …In this book Edward and Sumner argue that to better understand the impact of global growth on poverty it is necessary …

in meeting the MDG1 target of halving the incidence of global poverty by 2014. Part of the explanation for this weak … poverty-reducing performance has been the historic trajectory of innovation. During the 20th Century, most of global …

This study confirms a strong and robust relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction in sub … institutional freedom, and island economies are important control variables that help explain the variability of poverty across …