In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …

Because individuals with HIV are more likely to fall into poverty, and the poor may be at higher risk of contracting …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

-receiving states and metropolitan areas. Then I quantify the consequences of these wage effects on the poverty rates of native families … "poor" families among U.S.-born individuals. I consider the decade 2000-2009 during which poverty rates increased … no effect of immigration on native poverty at the national level. At the local level, only considering the most extreme …

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 …