India’s progress in reducing poverty at the national level masks substantial disparity in the incidence of poverty at … the state level. This paper provides a description of the trends in interstate differences in rural poverty for the period … 1978–97. Key findings are that poverty generally declined in most states over the last twenty years. However, poverty …

Poverty and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) should not be ascertained only on the basis of scarce and unreliable … poverty and inequality have increased over the past 30 years are based on regional income estimates with falling medians and … and more dehumanizing poverty in the years ahead even if meaningful economic growth is achieved. As underscored by the …

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 …

different generations. At present, youth and elderly are particularly vulnerable to poverty relative to adults in their middle …

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

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

, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that … reduces measurement error and ensures comparability across countries and over time. The empirical results in this paper …