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 …

-term rates of poverty reduction in the world, due to both economic growth and falling inequality. Did ethnic inequality fall … since 1969 and was that a key factor in the country's success in reducing poverty and in managing inequality? New measures … important as the overall rate of growth in household incomes. Despite past progress in reducing ethnic inequality, the …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

countries on poverty and average incomes in poor countries. We find no support in the cross-country analysis for the claim that … OECD polices worsen poverty in developing countries. To better understand what might drive these results, we turn to …