addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

global poverty and inequality have declined dramatically between 1980 and 2019. Finally, we find that within …

zero. Using the estimated optimal weights, we compute estimates of true income per capita and $1/day poverty rates for the … developing world and its regions. We get poverty estimates that are substantially lower and fall substantially faster than those … of Chen and Ravallion (2010) or of the survey-based poverty literature more generally. Our result is mainly driven by the …

A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of … the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a … reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam poverty line becomes a weighted average of the absolute poverty line …

true income per capita and $1-a-day poverty rates for the developing world and its regions. We obtain poverty estimates … survey-based poverty literature more generally. …