The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also … acknowledge a deep identification problem when the latent norms defining poverty vary systematically across countries. Welfare … model of relative-income comparisons calibrated to data on national poverty lines. Both bounds indicate falling global …

(majority) of “Bumiputera” (mainly Malays). Since then, Malaysia's official poverty measures indicate one of the fastest long …-term rates of poverty reduction in the world, due to both economic growth and falling inequality. Did ethnic inequality fall … since 1969 and was that a key factor in the country's success in reducing poverty and in managing inequality? New measures …

The widely held view that China has greatly reduced income poverty over the last 40 years does not accord with all the … evidence. The paper tries to reconcile the conflicting findings. The fact that strongly-relative measures show rising poverty … pace of measured poverty reduction when compared to absolute measures. Nonetheless, substantial progress against poverty is …

The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines … falling incidence of poverty globally over the last 30 years. This is mainly due to lower absolute poverty counts in the … standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world.Institutional subscribers …

Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …

How did we come to think that eliminating poverty is a legitimate goal for public policy? What types of policies have … emerged in the hope of attaining that goal? The last 200 years have witnessed a dramatic change in thinking about poverty …. Mainstream economic thinking in the 18th century held that poverty was necessary and even desirable for a country's economic …

sides. The paper estimates how much of China’s poverty rate around 1980—near the outset of Deng Xiaoping’s pro … China’s poverty in 1980 is attributed to the impact of the Maoist path since 1950. Further checks and tests suggest that (if …