well-being in place of measures based on current money income docs change conclusions concerning the extent of poverty in … the United Stales. Using the official federal poverty thresholds. we find that the overall consumption poverty rate was … three percentage points below the income poverty rate in 1988. Comparisons of the poverty rates of the elderly and the non …

intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption … patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a …

that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …

worsening of various income inequality indexes and we estimate poverty rates and headcounts. We then analyze some of the central …

, 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 …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen … future, we project that income inequalities will start rising again. If Africa does not start growing, then China, India, the …

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 …

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

India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …