poverty in terms of consumption (or income) is the overriding issue in poor countries, and (2) the only thing that really … matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of economic growth. The author takes (1) as given but questions (2 …, influences the extent of poverty today and the prospects for rapid poverty reduction in the future …

global warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While … studies consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on poverty across different geographical regions, with higher … household income and consumption surveys shows that temperature change has larger impacts in the short term and more impacts on …

, examines the role of income inequality for poverty reduction. The analysis finds that the assumption that income is log … highlight the important role income inequality can play in reducing poverty even if prior poverty changes have, in large part … growth in mean incomes and changes in the distribution of relative incomes to reductions in absolute poverty, and, in turn …

widely used operational definition -- the growth rate in the average income of the poorest 40 percent of a country … indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …

health. For this reason, developing countries often do not have the budget to update their estimates of poverty and health …It is costly to collect the household- and individual-level data that underlies official estimates of poverty and …

This paper looks at differential progress on the health Millennium Development Goals between the poor and better …-off within countries. The findings are based on original analysis of 235 Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator … Cluster Surveys, spanning 64 developing countries over the period 1990-2011. Five health status indicators and seven …

, both at the extensive and intensive margins. Using rainfall variations as an instrument for household income in rural … bribes, and (ii) among the bribe payers, the poor pay a higher share of their income. The results indicate that progressivity … regressions show that bribes increase with household income, but the Instrumental Variables estimates suggest that the Ordinary …

, within 70 countries at various levels of development, there is a positive relationship between income per capita and the … fully accounted for by (a) relatively higher ICT prices in low-income countries and (b) industrial composition …