"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 …

development: to what extent does targeting and size of social transfers matter for poverty? Using multilevel logistic regression … explanatory value for cross-country differences in poverty than the degree of targeting of transfer income. The results are …

The development of non-contributory pension program as institutions for poverty and inequality reduction in Brazil …

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 …