We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …

The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than … statistical procedures in poor countries understate the rate of global poverty reduction, and overstate growth in the world … used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in …

and wealth. We propose a revealed preference approach to measuring hunger and undernutrition that overcomes these …Caloric intake and minimum calorie thresholds are widely used in developing countries to assess hunger and nutrition …, and to construct poverty lines. However, it is generally recognized that the sufficiency of an individual's caloric intake …

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 … standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world …

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …

We develop and implement what we believe is the first conceptually valid health-inclusive poverty measure (HIPM …)--a measure that includes health care or insurance in the poverty needs threshold and health insurance benefits in family … resources--and we discuss its limitations. Building on the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure, we construct a pilot …

poverty estimates based on the new Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) from 1967 to 2012. During this period, poverty as … officially measured has stagnated. However, the official poverty measure (OPM) does not account for the effect of near … increasingly important part of government anti-poverty policy. Applying the SPM, which does count such transfers, we find that …

This paper considers the long-run patterns of poverty in the United States from the early 1960s to 2010. Our results … contradict previous studies that have argued that poverty has shown little improvement over time or that anti-poverty efforts … have been ineffective. We find that moving from traditional income-based measures of poverty to a consumption-based measure …

silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and … finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and pove …