to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and …

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 …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

issues empirically by conducting a 400-village field experiment within Indonesia's Conditional Cash Transfer program …

Indonesia, using both a high-stakes field experiment that varied the extent of elite influence and non-experimental data on a …

We use unique data from 600 Indonesian communities on what individuals know about the poverty status of others to study …

The recent financial crisis in Indonesia has resulted in dramatic price increases. Using very recent data, we …

more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …

Human capital, including health and nutrition, has played a key role in the literature on poverty traps. Economic … and, thereby, push individuals into poverty. Three potential concerns in this literature are explored with empirical … evidence drawn from primary longitudinal survey data collected before and after two major shocks in Indonesia: the 1998 …