The long-standing tradition of empirical studies investigating the nexus between economic growth and poverty has … concentrated on monetary poverty. This paper engages in the little-explored debate on the relationship between growth and … multidimensional poverty, by employing two novel, individual-based multidimensional poverty indices: the G-CSPI and G-M0. It relies on …

This paper studies future poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity outcomes using a panel data set with 150 countries … over 1980-2014. The findings suggest that global extreme poverty will decrease in absolute and relative terms in the period … 2015-2030. However, absolute poverty is likely to increase by 2030 in resource-output oriented countries and economies with …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of proportionate convergence in global poverty rates despite convergence in household mean … income levels and the link between income growth and poverty reduction. We show that heterogeneity in this link affects the …

improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …