-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality. Using a political-economy model where parties bargain over taxes and …

importance in light of concerns about inequality, potential for misunderstanding, and prospects for advancement. Throughout, the …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …

The success of multi-faceted "graduation" programs at reducing poverty raises three questions: can the impacts of these … bundled intervention, indicating a streamlined package could be a promising poverty alleviation strategy for developing …