Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

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 …

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

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

build sustainable income for those in extreme poverty. We focus on two important questions: whether a mere grant of …

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 …