is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period …

absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. Globally, the World Bank set goals to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to … promote shared prosperity in every society. We examine feasibility of these objectives for Sub-Saharan Africa, the world …, eliminating poverty by 2030 is out of the region's reach. Even under our 'best case' scenario of accelerated growth and …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …

associated derived demands for labor. Individual and community factors may influence the average length of poverty spells. We … poverty rate of the county. We find that moving an individual from one standard deviation above the mean poverty rate to one … standard deviation below the mean poverty rate (from the inner city to the suburbs) lowers the average poverty spell by 20 …