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developing world. While fewer people are poor by the global absolute standard, more are poor by the country-specific relative … standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world …
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dramatic revisions to price levels and real incomes across the world. The paper tries to understand these changes. Domestic …
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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 …
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available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …
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The late 18th century saw the intellectual germ of the idea of "ending poverty," but the idea did not get far in economics or policy making until much more recently. Over the 19th century, poverty rates fell substantially in Western Europe and North America, and we started to see mainstream...
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Current global inequality measures assume that national-mean income does not matter to economic welfare at given household income, as measured in surveys. The paper questions that assumption on theoretical and empirical grounds and finds that prominent stylized facts about global inequality are...
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The claim that social protection is a luxury good--with a national income elasticity exceeding unity--has as been influential. The paper tests the "luxury good hypothesis" using newly-assembled data on social protection spending across countries since 1995, treating the pandemic period...
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Thirty years ago, Nanak Kakwani provided elegant nonparametric formulae for the point elasticities of measures of poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found...
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