, in Yemen during a period of civil unrest. We are unable to measure outcomes for four years, thus much remains unknown …

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 …

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 … standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world.Institutional subscribers …

US Census Bureau poverty measures do not include an explicit need for health care or insurance nor do they consider … on poverty. This paper reviews conceptual and practical considerations in incorporating health benefits and needs into … poverty measures. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches including variants of the Official Poverty …

(majority) of “Bumiputera” (mainly Malays). Since then, Malaysia's official poverty measures indicate one of the fastest long …-term rates of poverty reduction in the world, due to both economic growth and falling inequality. Did ethnic inequality fall … since 1969 and was that a key factor in the country's success in reducing poverty and in managing inequality? New measures …

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