Poverty, Pro-Poor Growth and Simulated Inequality Reduction

Poverty reduction is at the center of policy discussion in every national government, international organization and non-political institution. Given the amount of wealth created in the past century, the main concern for the world is not how to produce goods to feed everyone, but how to ensure that those in most need get their share of the world’s riches. Poverty is nowadays more than a practical or technological problem: in the Middle Ages people were bound to starve given the constraints to produce food (or develop remedies to specific health threats); in our time, poverty is an ethical issue and we still need to answer the question: if there is enough food in the world to avoid people dying of hunger, why is this still happening?