ARTICLE | This paper demonstrates that COVAX, the primary international public effort aimed at making yet-to-be-developed vaccines available to poorer countries, was outcompeted for limited supply of vaccines by richer counties who enjoy greater purchasing power.

WORKING PAPER | We present alternate estimates of global, regional and national poverty based on reasoning as to what the Bank’s own method, consistently applied, would entail.

WORKING PAPER | We raise some basic conceptual questions regarding global development goals: Why have them at all? What function, if any, might they serve, and under what conditions could they do so successfully?

WORKING PAPER | This paper shows how regional distributions of income and consumption have evolved very differently over time.

WORKING PAPER | This paper introduce two separate datasets, making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world.

WORKING PAPER | This working paper introduces the Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP).

WORKING PAPER | The paper presents the predominant elements in the worldview of mainstream economists.

WORKING PAPER | The recent revision of the World Bank’s global poverty estimates based on a new $1.25 (2005 PPP) poverty line underlines their unreliability and lack of meaningfulness.