around a constant income distribution to illustrate why standard measures of poverty, built on the intuitions of unchanging …This note considers income distribution at two points in time where the population has also changed in some way …

differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … new notion of equivalent income, the income level with which the individual would be as well off, evaluated using a …

Two decades ago, 93% of the world’s poor lived in countries officially classified as Low Income (LICs). Now, 72% of the … world’s poor live in Middle Income Countries (MICs). The dramatic shift has been brought about by fast growth in a number of … global poor for many years to come. This “new geography of global poverty”—with the mass of the poor living in stable, non …

analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …

estimates of the impact of adjustment on poverty using household income and expenditure surveys currently available in LDCs. It … poverty. This framework does require, however, reasonably disaggregated data on income distribution. … proposes the use of decomposable poverty indices as a tractable vehicle for calculating the impact of adjustment on overall …