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-for example, to end poverty; (ii) proposes a new way to raise and govern international public funds; (iii) discusses the possible …
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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 …
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"Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public …-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things … they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. The essays cover a wide array of topics: the first essay is …
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the carbon emissions of the world's poorest. This paper instead focuses on economic growth as the driver of poverty … justification for reducing the world's climate ambitions. When trade-offs exist, the eradication of extreme poverty can be ….85 upper-middle-income poverty line. The challenge to align the world's development and climate objectives is not in …
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This paper makes new estimates of the cost of ending poverty and the global distribution of both the cost and poverty … itself. First, the paper discusses definitions of 'ending' poverty, arguing that there is an overemphasis (e.g. SDG 1) on the … extreme poverty line which is insufficient for multiple reasons. Second, we turn to the question of the location of global …
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