decline in earnings, extreme poverty and the Gini coefficient based on labor income increased by around 9.2 and 5 percentage … than offset the labor income losses for the bottom four deciles, however, such that poverty relative to the pre … ended in late 2020. The challenge will be to avoid a sharp increase in poverty and inequality if the labor market does not …

, which be associated with an increase in poverty of about 75 million people. Policy responses more effective than those in …

), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set … of national poverty lines that define the $1.25 line in 2005 PPPs, and if the 2011 PPP conversion factors are used …

that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …