"Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured … poverty does not fall when all incomes grow at the same rate. This stems from the (implicit) assumption in past measures that … roles of certain private expenditures in poor settings and with data on national poverty lines. The authors propose a new …

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The … open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and …

aversion. Illustrations based on data for Indonesia in the 1990s show a strong link between growth and poverty reduction in … that country. A decomposition of the observed poverty outcomes reveals the extent to which changes in inequality have … blunted the poverty impacts of both growth and contraction. Finally, the results also demonstrate that absolute and relative …