demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of … income support and tax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantially reduce poverty …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … poverty reduction. It decreases absolute poverty by 2-3 percentage points in terms of monetary income and up to 9 percentage …

A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press … parallel developments in the World Bank's measurement of global poverty that were stimulated by the report of the Commission on … Global Poverty, written by Atkinson, from which this book was developed. The new book is more than four hundred published …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often making it seem that … data rather than survey data alone, the poverty reducing effect of all programs together is nearly doubled while the effect …

), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … world.This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set … of national poverty lines that define the $1.25 line in 2005 PPPs, and if the 2011 PPP conversion factors are used …