In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with …

The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than … statistical procedures in poor countries understate the rate of global poverty reduction, and overstate growth in the world … used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in …

measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …

exertion and food intake -- and the underlying causes of obesity -- childhood and adult poverty, depression, and attitudes …