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 …

The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than … used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in … large countries, particularly India, China, and the US. In consequence, measured poverty has fallen less rapidly than …

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 …

US Census Bureau poverty measures do not include an explicit need for health care or insurance nor do they consider … on poverty. This paper reviews conceptual and practical considerations in incorporating health benefits and needs into … poverty measures. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches including variants of the Official Poverty …

wellbeing within a rural population with fairly homogeneous baseline levels of poverty. We discuss the implications of these …