the World Bank, held in September 2003. At the meetings, key researchers and policy makers from Europe, the United States …, and developing countries around the world met to identify and brainstorm on development challenges and successes that are … examined in-depth in the World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate for Everyone (report no. 28829). This title …

to poverty reduction. The number of people living in extreme poverty around the world has fallen by around one billion …The expansion of international trade has been essential to development and poverty reduction. Todays economy is …

How can countries eradicate poverty while also addressing climate change? Despite the necessity to deal with both … of poverty reduction (CIPR), defined as the ratio between proportional changes in emissions levels and the share of the … population above the poverty line, is heterogeneous across countries. This heterogeneity is partly explained by economic growth …

This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates … of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different … levels of initial poverty. The analysis uses country panel-data for 1980-2010. The results indicate that, as countries become …

The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these … processes in the coming decades. Due to their initial poverty and their relatively high dependence on environmental capital for …. Economic growth is essential for any large-scale poverty reduction. Green growth, a growth process that is sensitive to …

more labor mobility holds vastly more promise for reducing poverty than anything else on the development agenda. That said … than the potential gains from directed individual interventions and the poverty reduction gains from large, extended … global poverty …

the key to economic growth for nations, and to reducing poverty for individuals. This report is about enhancing …, and individuals. This overview is a presage to the World Development Report 2002, which shows that institutional strength …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the cross-country variation in the growth elasticity of poverty across a sample of …-country variation in the growth elasticity of poverty, the paper sets up a theoretical framework. Subsequently, the explanatory power of … business regulations and trade openness are important determinants of the growth elasticity of poverty. Countries that reduce …