This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for … them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty … measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty declined rapidly between 2003 and 2008 but fell only slightly between …

I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades …; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and … the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant - my perspectives are …

The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in … being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and women, in order to contrast between the sexes the role of changes in … characteristics and changes in returns to characteristics. We show that the rise of women in the top 1% is primarily accounted for by …

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and 'inequality' and …

is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …

genuine state dependence in poverty. We also provide estimates of low income transition rates and lengths of poverty and non-poverty …

A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics …