We show theoretically that the poor can benefit from price changes induced by higher income inequality. As the number … increase in poverty associates with higher purchasing power of the poor. Using cross-country data at two points in time on the … price of rice and Big Mac hamburgers, we confirm the relationship between inequality and purchasing power of the poor, and …

inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …

labor) and technology, which in turn are influenced by the infrastructure and institutions of the economy and by external …

. In particular, poverty is widespread in rural Cambodia. This paper examines rural poverty in Cambodia with a view to … literature, it appears that reduced rural poverty in Cambodia would have to rest on two pillars. Firstly, improvements in … established. Using the 2004 Cambodian Socio-Economic Survey, and focusing on the binding constraints to development and poverty …

address housing policy issues in China. One of the main concerns in Chinese cities is the raise of poverty mainly by “illegal …” migrants (who are Chinese rural residents) living in “urban villages”. We propose two steps to fight against poverty in Chinese … case, to fight against poverty, one can either implement place-targeted policies (like the enterprise zone programs in the …

relationship between economic and social globalization and absolute income poverty ex post. We use the globalization index … developed by Dreher (2006) and the World Bank poverty estimates. Using a fixed-effect panel based on five-year averages and … using a “long run” first difference regression, we find a robust negative correlation between globalization and poverty. We …