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 …

more labor mobility holds vastly more promise for reducing poverty than anything else on the development agenda. That said … than the potential gains from directed individual interventions and the poverty reduction gains from large, extended … global poverty …

trends sharply contrast countries on their way to meeting the goals and those in a poverty trap. Crisis proportions have been …