outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia …

poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress … in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to … have temporarily increased poverty and inequality. Second, education and employment status seem to be the main factors …

The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for …-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme poverty was as low as 0.8 percent in the pre-pandemic year 2019, and food …

There is world-wide convergence in life expectancy, despite little convergence in GDP per capita. If one values longer … life much more than material happiness, the world living standards may this have already converged substantially. This … among countries. A conventional GDP-based measure remains a good approximation for (non) convergence in world living s …