We estimate the world distribution of income by integrating individual income distributions for 125 countries between … 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 …

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

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 …

parents with young children may increase the intergenerational persistence of poverty and criminal behavior, even in affluent …