The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the …

The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how … both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 … equality and poverty reduction. The interaction of human rights with official development assistance and trade flows shows that …

inequality. Finally, we examine global poverty, which is identified through the lower end of the global distribution. …

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall …

the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …

warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic poverty and …

using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether … poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …). We find that there are some limitations in the current estimation of these lines, but show that statistically superior …

warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies … consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … poverty than transient poverty. The results are robust to different model specifications and measures of chronic poverty and …

prosperity using 'inequality lines'. Analogous to poverty lines but focused on inequality, inequality lines are benchmark incomes … contrast to the B40 approach and all conventional poverty lines, inequality lines arise naturally: their location in the income …. With data from the World Income Inequality Database, we present the most comprehensive empirical study to date of where …

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 …