silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and … finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and pove …

people must live. In Affluent in the Face of Poverty Jos Philips wonders what we should do about poverty …

In 2013, the World Bank Group adopted two new goals to guide its work: ending extreme poverty and boosting shared … prosperity. More specifically, the goals are to reduce extreme poverty in the world to less than 3 percent by 2030, and to foster … income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population in each country. While poverty reduction has been a mainstay of the …

from both senior and emerging scholars in the field of income distribution and poverty studies. The Volume is rounded out …