prospects and ways globalization links the fates of industrial and developing countries. The report then considers issues in …

severity of poverty worldwide; Chapter 1 Prospects for the Global Economy; Table 1.1 The global outlook in summary; Figure 1 …Figure 1.21 World trade is expected to decline in 2009 for the first time since 1982 …The eruption of the worldwide financial crisis has radically recast prospects for the world economy. Global Economic …

the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …