Fiscal federalism theorists have long been intrigued by the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty … provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty. It focuses on how the function … of institutional quality can explain the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty in 53 developing …

future economic growth. In contrast, low income and absolute poverty work both as push-factors and as credit constraints, so … that people may want to leave, but few can afford to migrate when poverty is high. We test our hypotheses using new data on … poverty, using a migration gravity model with a spatial specification. Controlling for both source and destination income …

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

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 …