the priority given to absolute poverty in poor countries. The pattern of externalities also suggests that there will be … too much poverty and inequality in this economy, even judged solely from the point of view of aggregate efficiency …

The relationship between violence and chronic poverty has been studied mostly in the context of war or long … shattering of infrastructure impacts the chance that poverty may remain chronic. A long-run perspective is gained by analyzing … chronically poor if the percentage of people in food poverty remains above the national average during two consecutive periods …

model that shows how exogenous variations in market power affect poverty. Increased market power leads to economy … incomes of households, particularly among the poor. Declines in poverty in this context are only possible in the case wherein … poverty eradication. This result suggest the possibility of taxing extranormal rents extracted by firms with market power and …

Multidimensional measures of poverty have become standard as complementary indicators of poverty in many countries …. Multidimensional poverty calculations typically comprise three indices: the multidimensional headcount, the average deprivation share … counterfactual simulations--to break up the changes of the multidimensional poverty headcount into the variation attributed to each …

significant number of households that are just above the poverty line who are not eligible, by definition, for antipoverty … programs and are at risk of falling back into poverty in the event of an economic crisis or shocks like loss of employment and …

. Combining income data from poverty maps, administrative records on crime and violence, and public expenditures data at the …

data are deceptive. The program entails a nominal 100 percent benefit withdrawal rate -- a poverty trap. However, the paper …

such social effects on welfare call for a reconsideration of how we assess global poverty, but they do not support standard … measures of relative poverty. The paper argues instead for using a weakly-relative measure as the upper-bound complement to the … lower-bound provided by a standard absolute measure. New estimates of global poverty are presented, drawing on 850 household …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank?s twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition … designed to preserve real purchasing power in poor countries, the revisions lead to relatively small changes in global poverty …

This paper exploits a novel municipal-level data set to explore patterns of convergence in income and poverty in Mexico … during 1992-2014. The paper finds that, despite a context of overall stagnant economic growth and poverty reduction, there is … evidence of income and poverty convergence at the municipal level. The findings suggest that these convergence processes stem …