, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that … reduces measurement error and ensures comparability across countries and over time. The empirical results in this paper …

This survey reviews models of self-reinforcing mechanisms that cause poverty to persist. Some of them examine market … institutional failure which can, by itself, perpetuate self-reinforcing poverty. A common thread in all these mechanisms is their … reviews recent progress in the empirical poverty trap literature. …

Wage Inequality -- Economic Transformation and the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China -- The Geography of Poverty … Democracy -- Part II (In)decent Work -- Decent Work for Change -- Minimum Wages and Poverty with Income-Sharing -- What Is … Unemployment in Europe? Concepts and Measurement in the European Community Household Panel -- Workers and Labour Market Outcomes of …

Security Challenge -- Human Security -- The UNDP and Human Security -- Human Security: Looking Forward -- Poverty and … -- 2. Mapping Inequality -- Interstate Polarisation -- Intrastate Polarisation -- Mapping the World's Producers -- Mapping … the 1980s and 1990s -- 4. The Reform of National Economies -- The Role of the IMF and the World Bank -- Evaluating the …