to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and …

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

We use unique data from 600 Indonesian communities on what individuals know about the poverty status of others to study …

Indonesia, using both a high-stakes field experiment that varied the extent of elite influence and non-experimental data on a …

Many developing country governments determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs using censuses of household assets … Indonesia where, in randomly selected provinces, the government added questions on flat-screen televisions and cell-phone SIM …

issues empirically by conducting a 400-village field experiment within Indonesia's Conditional Cash Transfer program …

more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …

Human capital, including health and nutrition, has played a key role in the literature on poverty traps. Economic … and, thereby, push individuals into poverty. Three potential concerns in this literature are explored with empirical … evidence drawn from primary longitudinal survey data collected before and after two major shocks in Indonesia: the 1998 …

The recent financial crisis in Indonesia has resulted in dramatic price increases. Using very recent data, we …

This paper considers the long-run patterns of poverty in the United States from the early 1960s to 2010. Our results … contradict previous studies that have argued that poverty has shown little improvement over time or that anti-poverty efforts … have been ineffective. We find that moving from traditional income-based measures of poverty to a consumption-based measure …