We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the … measurement and identification difficulties, and despite conflicting evidence on some issues, empirical work based on country case …

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

The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … value of the floor, allowing for transient effects and measurement errors in survey data. On using all suitable and … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …

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 …