The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …

worsening of various income inequality indexes and we estimate poverty rates and headcounts. We then analyze some of the central …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen …

that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …

development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …

incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …

This paper investigates the impacts of macroeconomic activity and policy on the poverty population. It is shown that … both the poverty count and the income share of the lowest quintile of income recipients move significantly with the … structure. Special attention is given to changes in the poverty rate over the past decade and to prospective changes in the …

impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …