points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of …, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the … negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It …

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 we also propose a …

Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 12 is the outgrowth of University of Alabama Poverty and Inequality conference … minimum wage. The Formby-Bishop-Kim paper compares the poverty reducing effects of the minimum wage to two alternative poverty …-Kalb-Scutella compare alternative approaches to measuring poverty and inequality in a discrete hours model. …