shallow knowledge. This simple idea can inform cross-country income differences, international trade patterns, poverty traps …

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …

According to economic theory, well-being or utility depends on consumption. However, at the household level, total … used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income … use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

This paper investigates monetary policy's influence on poverty and inequality in both the short run and the long run …

Standard measures of poverty may reveal nothing about whether the poorest of the poor are being lifted-up or left …

better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …