distributional problem is not inequality but poverty. The paper considers three sources of poverty and asks what if anything might be …

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

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 …

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

the late 1970s. In contrast, bottom income quantiles and poverty rates have converged across areas in recent decades …

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 …

these episodes to examine the idea that the lower tail of the wealth distribution reflects in part a wealth-based poverty …

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 …