The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …

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 …

1970 and 1998. We estimate poverty rates and headcounts by integrating the density function below the $1/day and $2/day … poverty lines. We find that poverty rates decline substantially over the last twenty years. We compute poverty headcounts and … by 450 million over the same period. We analyze poverty across different regions and countries. Asia is a great success …

The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the … economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with panel data for the western states of Germany and the U.S.) over … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut …

childhood (family income and poverty measures, family characteristics including parental education, and child characteristics …