Globalisation is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are …

"An overview of the economic development of and policies intended to combat poverty around the world." …"While there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years … greater progress against poverty in the developing world in recent times-indeed, a faster pace of progress against extreme …

National poverty lines vary greatly across the world, from under …

Against what standards should we judge the developing world's overall performance against poverty going forward? The … the developing world, as long as this did not come with a reduction in the household sector's share or any further …

developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived …