dimensions of poverty, and more concerned about the total number of poor than the incidence of poverty. In regard to inequality …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …

, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …

1970 and 1998. We estimate poverty rates and headcounts by integrating the density function below the $1/day and $2/day … poverty lines. We find that poverty rates decline substantially over the last twenty years. We compute poverty headcounts and … by 450 million over the same period. We analyze poverty across different regions and countries. Asia is a great success …

the late 1970s. In contrast, bottom income quantiles and poverty rates have converged across areas in recent decades …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen …

globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …