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 …

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

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 …

exertion and food intake -- and the underlying causes of obesity -- childhood and adult poverty, depression, and attitudes …

poverty estimates based on the new Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) from 1967 to 2012. During this period, poverty as … officially measured has stagnated. However, the official poverty measure (OPM) does not account for the effect of near … increasingly important part of government anti-poverty policy. Applying the SPM, which does count such transfers, we find that …

Census's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) nearly doubles the elderly poverty rate compared to the "Official" Poverty … a poverty measure's predictive validity and excluding assets exacerbates this bias, since assets fund MOOP. The SPM is … based on a 1995 NAS report that recommended a health-exclusive poverty measure, despite considering it, conceptually, a …

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 …

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 …