Globalisation and Poverty are two key contemporary issues in economic development with the former
assumed to be causing the latter in developing countries. Developing countries are characterised by
international economic stagnation and generalised poverty within which they are caught, the current
form of globalisation is actually tightening rather than loosening the international poverty trap. This
paper addresses the linkage of globalisation and poverty in two developing countries of Bangladesh and
Nigeria. The trend of poverty and the structures of their economies were compared from 1985 to 2006
using descriptive statistics survey to analyse the facts. The paper concludes that the pace of poverty
alleviation requires policies that further integrate developing countries into the global economy that will
enable the poor to take advantage of the new opportunities offered by globalisation.