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 …

We review the recent empirical literature on global poverty, focusing on key methodological aspects. These include the … choice of welfare indicator, poverty line and purchasing power parity exchange rates, equivalence scales, data sources, and …-household inequalities and potentially influencing poverty estimates. Based on a sensitivity analysis of global poverty estimates to …

This ground-breaking study on the measurement of poverty shows how policy in this field has taken a wrong turn with … disastrous results.In recent years, poverty has generally been understood in ‘relative' terms. That is, people are regarded as … poor if they earn less than some benchmark relative to average earnings. One perverse result of such relative poverty …

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

We review the relationship between trade and poverty in less developed countries, surveying both relevant economic … can lead to poverty reduction, these circumstances do not always obtain. Trade liberalization will only be an effective … instrument of poverty reduction under specific structural conditions. There may be more direct and effective means of attaining …

Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty counts is that there are no economies of … of global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative …

Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty counts is that there are no economies of … global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household …

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 …

This paper considers the effectiveness and efficiency of global growth, as a route to poverty reduction, since 1990 and … then demonstrates the redistributive challenges implicit in various poverty lines and scenarios: the significance being … that this historical data can inform understanding and appreciation of what it would involve to end global poverty in the …

(SDGs) approved in 2015, it is clear that poverty will be far from eradicated by then. Absolute poverty is concentrated in … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and overwhelmingly in 12-15 countries where progress in poverty alleviation is largely … will be larger than the entire population of the European Union. While inequality matters for poverty reduction, it is the …