points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of … negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It … and between countries. The statistical relationships between growth, inequality and poverty are discussed, as is the …

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. …

inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth that can be used to compute these measures from GB2 parameter estimates. An application …

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

expenditures in Indonesia in the 1990s reveals that the poverty reduction achieved remains far below what would have been achieved …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally the authors also …

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