World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …

poverty incidence, but more slowly for the upper bound. Either way, the developing world has a higher poverty incidence but is … making more progress against poverty than the developed world …The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also …

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 … falling incidence of poverty globally over the last 30 years. This is mainly due to lower absolute poverty counts in the …

compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen … person in the world. We then estimate the gaussian kernel density function for the worldwide distribution of income. We …

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 …

The latest World Bank estimates of real GDP per capita for China are significantly lower than previous ones. We review …% higher relative to the U.S. in 2005 than the World Bank estimates …