The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the …

the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …

globalisation? Will poverty simply diminish with increased global markets? This state-of-the-art critical 'development' reader deals … with these and other related questions. "Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict" examines the inter-relationships between … globalisation, poverty and conflict. It complements current debates in the field of development studies and, in an era in which …

Security Challenge -- Human Security -- The UNDP and Human Security -- Human Security: Looking Forward -- Poverty and … -- 2. Mapping Inequality -- Interstate Polarisation -- Intrastate Polarisation -- Mapping the World's Producers -- Mapping … the 1980s and 1990s -- 4. The Reform of National Economies -- The Role of the IMF and the World Bank -- Evaluating the …