The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also … acknowledge a deep identification problem when the latent norms defining poverty vary systematically across countries. Welfare … model of relative-income comparisons calibrated to data on national poverty lines. Both bounds indicate falling global …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Buhong Zheng (1993), 'An Axiomatic Characterization of the Watts Poverty … Index', Economic Letters, 42 (1), 81-86 -- 2. Amartya Sen (1976), 'Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement … Decomposable Poverty Measures', Econometrica, 52 (3), May, 761-66 -- 4. A.B. Atkinson (1970), 'On the Measurement of Poverty …