between $4 and $10 (at constant 2005 PPP dollar). They are well above the international poverty line, but still vulnerable to … falling back into poverty and hence not part of the secure middle class. In a first step, we use long-term growth projections …

, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. Integration into the global economy in the 1990s brought increased … paper the logic of going beyond the standard, poverty-targeted, elements of good social policy to a modern social contract …

Increasing integration has made the great challenge of reducing poverty and advancing human development more achievable … why good global economic governance matters for reducing poverty and inequality in the world, and then develop several …

Poverty reduction is now, and quite properly should remain, the primary objective of the World Bank. But, when the … World Bank dreams of a world free of poverty—what should it be dreaming? I argue in this essay that the dream should be a … bold one, that treats citizens of all nations equally in defining poverty, and that sets a high standard for what …

underlying causes of poverty. A recent manifestation is the move towards “sustainability,” which stresses community mobilization …

The paper sets out two views of the facts about the effects of globalization on world poverty and inequality. The … bottom line: globalization is not the cause, but neither is it the solution to world poverty and inequality. The paper then …

social programs in virtually all countries, poverty and high inequality remain deeply entrenched. In this paper we ask the … – both in increasing growth and in directly reducing poverty. We define social policy broadly to include economy-wide (“macro …” and employment and other structural) policies that affect poverty and social justice in foreseeable ways, as well as …

This article applies fuzzy set theory to measure three dimensions of poverty in Mexico: monetary poverty, non …-monetary poverty of private goods and non-monetary poverty of public goods. By using those three dimensions, it is possible to build a … joint membership to classify poverty in manifest, latent and non-poverty, which are computed for the three types of official …