Global GDP is more than 100 trillion dollars, yet 10% of the world's population still live in extreme poverty on less … than $1.90 per day. No one should have to live like that: alleviating poverty is a minimal moral obligation implied by … world to each poor person would eliminate extreme poverty directly and at negligible cost. It is the least we should do …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

, evidence on how these institutions shape poverty rates across developed economies remains surprisingly scarce. It would be a … mistake, though, to believe that the relationship between earnings inequalities and poverty is straightforward. Indeed …, whereas earnings inequalities are measured at the individual level, poverty is calculated at the household level using …

, evidence on how these institutions shape poverty rates across developed economies remains surprisingly scarce. It would be a … mistake, though, to believe that the relationship between earnings inequalities and poverty is straightforward. Indeed …, whereas earnings inequalities are measured at the individual level, poverty is calculated at the household level using …

but because some people lacked entitlements to that food. Is a similar situation now the case for global poverty, meaning … that national resources are available but not being used to end poverty? This paper argues that approximately three …-quarters of global poverty, at least at the lower poverty lines, could now be eliminated — in principle — via redistribution of …

Several studies report large and persistent differences in standards of living and poverty within a country. In this … paper, we study whether the observed differences in poverty incidence in urban areas are due to differences in the …, differences in the parameters are an important determinant of household income and poverty within a country …