Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United … poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even increased for the young. We then analyze which social and … economic factors help explain the extent of poverty in the U.S. using probit, tobit, and machine learning techniques. Our …

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …

Over the past decades ASEAN countries have experienced rapid economic growth accompanied by a dramatic fall in poverty …

, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …

This paper provides a brief and selective overview of research on the links between macroeconomic policies and poverty …

countries, including how countries balance the primary objective of poverty alleviation against the desire to both manage the … employment incentives over the primary objective of poverty alleviation. Many countries can reduce this trade off by combining …