The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also … acknowledge a deep identification problem when the latent norms defining poverty vary systematically across countries. Welfare … model of relative-income comparisons calibrated to data on national poverty lines. Both bounds indicate falling global …

poverty. The comprehensive assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …

empirically examines whether growth of India's secondary towns or big cities mattered more to recent rural poverty reduction …-effects model of poverty measures for rural India, calibrated to a panel of 59 regions observed four times over 1993-2012. The … expansion of lit area had greater effect on the rural poverty measures than did intensive margin growth in the brightness of …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …

Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …

spanning 35 years with other sources, we estimate a model of the joint determination of consumption-poverty measures … not confined to those near the poverty line. …

in welfare indicators can thus be hazardous. There was a sharp increase in India's poverty measures in the aftermath of … the mid-1991 crisis and the ensuing stabilization reforms. However, only one-tenth of the increase in measured poverty is … explicable in terms of the variables one would expect to transmit the shock. Poverty measures soon returned to their pre …

Rural poverty rankings of Indian states in 1990 were very different from 1960. This unevenness in progress allows us to … study the causes of poverty in a developing rural economy. We model the evolution of various poverty measures, using pooled … state-level data for the period 1957-91. Differences in trend rates of poverty reduction are attributed to differing growth …