How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … suggests that Europe-wide comparisons are more important to the perception of poverty than the convention of national relative … poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …

parallel developments in the World Bank's measurement of global poverty that were stimulated by the report of the Commission on … pages. It remains unfinished yet it is a masterly guide to the nuances of poverty measurement and an invaluable source for …A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press …

In this paper, the world distribution of personal incomes (WDPI) is estimated using a global sample comprising country … bimodality disappeared in subsequent years. Inequality and poverty decreased in accordance with a three-phase pattern over the … period. Whether clones are scaled to GDP or HFCE matters when evaluating inequality and poverty levels, but not when …

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world …The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines … falling incidence of poverty globally over the last 30 years. This is mainly due to lower absolute poverty counts in the …

progress is being made against poverty and inequality in the current period of quot;globalization.quot; Ravallion provides a … evidence suggests that if the rate of progress against absolute poverty in the developing world in the 1990s is maintained …-oriented debates on globalization and pro-poor growth.This paper - a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group - is part …

standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world.Institutional subscribers …The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines … falling incidence of poverty globally over the last 30 years. This is mainly due to lower absolute poverty counts in the …