In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

distribution has become particularly important in recent decades. We reconfirm the findings of the literature that global poverty …

crises' impact on real per capita GDP, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty headcounts, and calorie supply per capita … percent below that of non-defaulting peers after a decade. Based on the trajectory of the health, nutrition, and poverty …

pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of completed education, and are less …