"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 …

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 …

below expectations. The World Bank ex post evaluation of the results of its engagement in FCS found that 80 percent of FCS …

, successful development strategies reduced the proportion of the world’s people living in extreme poverty from 36 to 10 percent …Fragility and conflict pose a critical threat to the global goal of ending extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2015 …. But in many fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS), poverty is stagnating or getting worse. The number of people …