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 goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how … both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 … equality and poverty reduction. The interaction of human rights with official development assistance and trade flows shows that …

The study examined the impact of globalization on poverty rate with evidence from middle-income country. It focused on … globalization had negative and significant impact on poverty rate in Nigeria. Therefore, the conclusion was made that globalization … had contributed significantly in reducing poverty rate in Nigeria. The study recommended the need for the government to …

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 …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. … world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in PPP units of monthly real consumption and income for every …

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. … unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark …

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

dollars per day. Previous research suggests that globalization stimulates poverty reduction, but does not investigate what … to institutional quality in reducing poverty. We find that the poverty-reducing effect of globalization is stronger when … institutions are weak. In particular, increasing social globalization reduces poverty more when corruption is high and democratic …

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 …

This paper updates the distribution of global poverty data and makes projections up to 2020. The paper asks the … following question: Do the world’s extreme poor live in poor countries? It is argued that many of the world’s extreme poor … already live in countries where the total cost of ending extreme poverty is not prohibitively high as a percentage of GDP. And …