This paper asks where do the world’s multidimensionally poor people live? The paper considers how the global … distribution of multidimensional poverty differs from the global distribution of income poverty and assesses the sensitivity of … multidimensionally poor people and just one-third of severely multidimensionally poor people live in the world’s poorest countries …

This paper updates the distribution of global poverty data and makes projections up to 2020. The paper asks the … following question: Do the world’s extreme poor live in poor countries? It is argued that many of the world’s extreme poor … already live in countries where the total cost of ending extreme poverty is not prohibitively high as a percentage of GDP. And …

inequality. Finally, we examine global poverty, which is identified through the lower end of the global distribution. …

journal Ius Inter Gentes), argues the links between improving human and legal rights protections for people living in poverty … and success in ending poverty. It then examines approaches to achieving improvement in human and legal rights of people … living in poverty, illustrating with examples from a variety of NGO programs. Previously the article has not been available …

As the world approaches the halfway point to the target year of 2030 for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals … (SDGs) approved in 2015, it is clear that poverty will be far from eradicated by then. Absolute poverty is concentrated in … Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and overwhelmingly in 12-15 countries where progress in poverty alleviation is largely …

We review the relationship between trade and poverty in less developed countries, surveying both relevant economic … can lead to poverty reduction, these circumstances do not always obtain. Trade liberalization will only be an effective … instrument of poverty reduction under specific structural conditions. There may be more direct and effective means of attaining …

We evaluate the claim that world consumption poverty has fallen since 1990 in light of alternative assumptions about … world. We use two poverty indicators: the aggregate headcount and the headcount ratio, and consider two widely … poverty in China, India, and the rest of the developing world, global poverty may or may not have increased. The extent of the …

This paper studies the association between financial development, financial stability, and poverty for a sample of 109 … development, and only a few recent studies have looked at the effects of financial stability on poverty. However, none of the … existing studies has looked at the interaction effect of the two on poverty. Our contribution to this literature is manifold …