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

Global GDP is more than 100 trillion dollars, yet 10% of the world's population still live in extreme poverty on less … than $1.90 per day. No one should have to live like that: alleviating poverty is a minimal moral obligation implied by … world to each poor person would eliminate extreme poverty directly and at negligible cost. It is the least we should do …

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 …

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 …

of chronically poor households (poverty-induced vulnerability) - the focus of traditional poverty maps - and the share of … households showing a significant probability of falling into poverty (risk-induced vulnerability). As an application of the …Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …

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 …

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19's impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF's April … recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction. Our baseline case suggests that globally the number of people … Development. The fallout from the pandemic will also exacerbate the geographic concentration of poverty, as exemplified by the …

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 …