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

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

Since Brazil's adoption of universal health care in 1988, the country's health care system has consisted of a mix of … in Brazil despite universal coverage using a nationally representative sample of over 48,000 households. Additional …

This paper analyzes how changes in the concentration of political power affect long-run development. We study Brazil …

some social indicators such as the unemployment rate and monetary poverty show large cyclical fluctuations, other social … Ravallion (1992). In particular, we show that more than 40 percent of the fall in monetary poverty observed in Latin America and …

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

-exposure states by 10% and the incidence of wage poverty (the fraction of wage earners whose labor income would not sustain a family … of four at above-poverty consumption levels) in low-exposure states increased relative to high-exposure states by 7% …

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 …

impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …