At a moment when a global effort to pursue a development-oriented trade round seems to have stalled, some of the largest economies in international trade have turned their attentions to regional accords. The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership cover...

Deaton s analysis of the problems with poverty counts and suggestions for improvement, including issues needing further research, are based on two distinct stages in counting the poor. At the first or international stage, a world poverty line is set and used to derive comparable poverty lines...