This paper considers the long-run patterns of poverty in the United States from the early 1960s to 2010. Our results … contradict previous studies that have argued that poverty has shown little improvement over time or that anti-poverty efforts … have been ineffective. We find that moving from traditional income-based measures of poverty to a consumption-based measure …

dimensions of poverty, and more concerned about the total number of poor than the incidence of poverty. In regard to inequality …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …

in New York City, suggesting that similar image data can be used to map wealth and poverty in previously unmeasured areas …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …