Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …

Poverty is typically measured in different ways in developing and advanced countries. The majority of developing … countries measure poverty in absolute terms, using a poverty line determined by the monetary cost of a predetermined basket of … goods. In contrast, most analyses of poverty in advanced countries, including the majority of OECD countries and Eurostat …

inequality. Finally, we examine global poverty, which is identified through the lower end of the global distribution. …

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall …

Public works programs in developing countries can reduce poverty in the long term and help lowskilled workers cope with …