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 …

national growth: pro-poor growth (e.g. Ethiopia); pro-middle growth (e.g. Brazil); anti-poor growth (e.g. Nigeria); anti … the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …

Poverty reduction initiatives should be comprehensive, relational and global in their outlook even though poverty … Report provides a brief overview of contemporary work on conceptualisations of poverty. It outlines characteristics of multi …-dimensional and relational approaches to poverty and it examines the increased concern with the relation of inequality to poverty. The …