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 … value of the floor, allowing for transient effects and measurement errors in survey data. On using all suitable and …

standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world.Institutional subscribers …The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines … absolute measures are seen to ignore important social effects on welfare, while popular strongly-relative measures ignore …

This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …

academics in studies of economic growth, particularly through the Penn World Table, and in some cases, to allocate resources … extrapolation of the previous round, ICP 2005. These discrepancies will eventually have important implications for the Penn World … Table, and for international comparisons of living standards. The world according to ICP 2011 looks markedly more equal than …

Nighttime lights data are a measure of economic activity whose error is plausibly independent of the measurement errors … study of PPP-adjusted estimates of GDP around the world between 1992 and 2010. First, we find that while market exchange … optimal. Using data from the Penn World Tables, we find that, indeed, it is optimal to only use the latest price data, and …

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 …

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 …

We develop and implement what we believe is the first conceptually valid health-inclusive poverty measure (HIPM …)—a measure that includes health care or insurance in the poverty needs threshold and health insurance benefits in family … resources—and we discuss its limitations. Building on the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure, we construct a pilot …