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 …

What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the … winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are … the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the … forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the …

its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …

The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in … one set of indicators that capture the extension of lived poverty, that is what percentage of the respondents, experiences … deprivation, but we also develop a series of indicators that capture the severity of lived poverty, that is how frequently …

Recurring in Preindustrial Economy -- Chapter 3. Capital Accumulation -- Chapter 4. Productivity Growth -- Chapter 5. Inequality … and Poverty -- Part II. Spain in the Global Economy -- Chapter 6. The Loss of the American Empire -- Chapter 7. The Terms … First Globalization. …