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 …

"Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public …-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things … they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays cover a wide array of topics: the first essay is …