Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate … measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes …

"This book focuses on two domains: the measurement of absolute consumption poverty and a first-order dominance approach …

This paper examines income mobility in developing countries. We start by synthesizing findings from the available … evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic … panels constructed from cross-section data. We echo earlier literature in pointing to substantial movement across income …

-old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of countries in the Global South …-for example, to end poverty; (ii) proposes a new way to raise and govern international public funds; (iii) discusses the possible …

In the presence of inequality a status-driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income-based and … nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in … integrate various strands of literature on status effects. -- inequality ; inter-temporal consumer choice ; utility ; poverty …