We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and … probability of being an entrepreneur. The results are robust to various checks, including alternative measures of energy poverty … estimation methods and potential omitted variable bias. We also explore the channels through which energy poverty influences …

Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty counts is that there are no economies of … global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household …

on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty traps, ii) a literature review of evidence that different human … domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based … development related investments can promote growth, and iii) own empirical analyses that aim at estimating the relative …

and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in … inequality from Forbes magazine's listing of billionaires and compare its effect on growth to the effects of income inequality …

than those of lower poverty, lower inequality, or higher GDP per capita …We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross …

A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press … parallel developments in the World Bank's measurement of global poverty that were stimulated by the report of the Commission on … Global Poverty, written by Atkinson, from which this book was developed. The new book is more than four hundred published …

commercialization and transfer of technologies, and increased income inequality and concentration of severe poverty in certain regions …

years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its …This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … world.This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set … of national poverty lines that define the $1.25 line in 2005 PPPs, and if the 2011 PPP conversion factors are used …