We propose and analyze an improved small-x equation which incorporates exact leading and next-to-leading Balitskiȋ-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov kernels on one hand and renormalization group constraints in the relevant collinear limits on the other. We work out in detail the recently proposed expansion of the solution, derive the Green's function factorization properties and discuss both the gluon anomalous dimension and the hard Pomeron. The resummed results are stable, nearly renormalization-scheme independent, and join smoothly with the fixed order perturbative regime. Two critical hard Pomeron exponents c (Q 2 ) and s (Q 2 ) are provided, which -for reasonable strong-coupling extrapolations -are argued to provide bounds on the Pomeron intercept P . ͓S0556-2821͑99͒06321-3͔