those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in …

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 …

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 …

individuals below the poverty line. It also argues that inflation affects poverty mainly through its impact on real wages: the …. Finally the paper discusses whether some stabilization programs are less costly in terms of increased poverty than others …