Smart decisions about where to focus poverty alleviation projects depend on accurate projections of where the bulk of …, Peter Edward and Andy Sumner introduce new model of growth, inequality, and poverty that allows comparison of a wide range … of input assumptions. They find that it is plausible that $1.25 and $2 global poverty will reduce substantially by 2030 …

This paper proposes to critically examine the United Nations projections on urbanisation. Both the estimates of current … alternative hypothesis for projections. Alternative projections are proposed using a polynomial model and compared to the UN … projections, which are based on a linear model. The conclusions are that UN projections may overestimate the urban population for …

policy responses to this problem remain unclear. This paper uses a global general equilibrium model, projections of global … growth and microeconomic household models, to project potential implications for incomes, food production and poverty. We … find that higher agricultural productivity would generally lower poverty, with different impacts depending where the …

This paper proposes to critically examine the United Nations projections on urbanisation. Both the estimates of current … alternative hypothesis. Projections are proposed using a polynomial model and compared to the UN projections, which are based on a … linear model. The conclusion is that UN projections may overestimate the urban population for the year 2030 by almost one …

(english) This paper proposes to critically examine the United Nations projections on urbanisation. Both the estimates … used as an alternative hypothesis for projections. Alternative projections are proposed using a polynomial model and … compared to the UN projections, which are based on a linear model. The conclusions are that UN projections may overestimate the …