dimensions of poverty, and more concerned about the total number of poor than the incidence of poverty. In regard to inequality …, critics tend to refer more to changes in absolute inequality, and income polarization, rather than the inequality measures …

-exposure states by 10% and the incidence of wage poverty (the fraction of wage earners whose labor income would not sustain a family … of four at above-poverty consumption levels) in low-exposure states increased relative to high-exposure states by 7% …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … poverty if we use other poverty lines. We find that various measures of global inequality have declined substantially 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 …

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 …

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element …, measures of inequality that ignore intra household allocations are both incomplete and misleading. We discuss determinants of …

It is sometimes argued that poorer people choose to work less, implying less welfare inequality than suggested by … measures of inequality (in outcomes or opportunities) do not, however, measure incomes consistently with personal choices of … single American adults suggest that adjusting for effort imposing common preferences attenuates inequality, although the …

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 …

We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the …

, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …