housing court to tenants with income at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guideline. We find that tenants who gain …

(majority) of "Bumiputera" (mainly Malays). Since then, Malaysia's official poverty measures indicate one of the fastest long …-term rates of poverty reduction in the world, due to both economic growth and falling inequality. Did ethnic inequality fall … since 1969 and was that a key factor in the country's success in reducing poverty and in managing inequality? New measures …

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 …

Under the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), schools serving sufficiently high-poverty populations may enroll their …

years to find these start-up grants acted more as a kick-start than a lift out of poverty. Grantees' investment leveled off …

impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …

debate about whether these jobs help the poor transition into stable employment and out of poverty. We provide direct … placing participants in either temporary or direct-hire jobs improves their odds of leaving welfare and escaping poverty in …