on simulation models to address this question. In this paper World Bank poverty estimates are used to systematically test …Do higher food prices help or hinder poverty reduction? Despite much debate, existing research has almost solely relied … the relationship between changes in poverty and exogenous changes in real domestic food prices. The paper uncovers …

extreme poverty. In the 1960s and 1970s, when close to half of the world was living in extreme poverty, the approach that …As global extreme poverty has fallen -- by one measure, from close to 2 billion people in 1990 to about 700 million … today -- the world has learned about antipoverty strategies that work. These experiences should inform the final push to end …

reduce poverty. This paper describes the main mechanisms through which demographic change may affect economic outcomes, and … estimates the association between changes in the share of working-age population with per capita growth, savings, and poverty … poverty reduction …

The paper examines the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a new cross … poverty, lower inequality or higher gross domestic product per capita. That may be linked to the evolution of the middle class …

This paper analyzes the impact of large-scale expansion of biofuels on the global income distribution and poverty. A … allocation, commodity prices, factor prices and household income. A second model based on world-wide household surveys uses these … results to calculate the impacts on poverty and global income inequality. The study finds that the large-scale expansion of …

poverty incidence, but more slowly for the upper bound. Either way, the developing world has a higher poverty incidence but is … making more progress against poverty than the developed world …The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also …

This paper assesses the potential impact of antimicrobial resistance on global economic growth and poverty. The … world without antimicrobial resistance, the losses during 2015–50 may sum to $85 trillion in gross domestic product and $23 … poverty. Under the high antimicrobial resistance scenario, by 2030, an additional 24.1 million people would be extremely poor …

Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is to minimize national poverty … income, migration cost and poverty line conditions under which a poverty gradient from rural to town to city will exist as an …