absolute levels of living. It is argued that a new hybrid measure is called for, combining absolute and weakly … 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 …

yield a nationalistic measure whereby global inequality is average within-country inequality, which is rising. Other …

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 traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … value of the floor, allowing for transient effects and measurement errors in survey data. On using all suitable and … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …

protection benefits the poorest and hence lifts the floor, and what role economic development plays. Evidence is presented for … the developing world and the US. Across developing countries, a higher mean income comes with a higher floor. The bulk of …

the post-Colonial period, the newly independent states were keen to see an end to poverty. From the 1990s, development … agencies began to identify this as their overarching objective. The U.N.'s first Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) of halving … the 1990 poverty rate by 2015 was achieved ahead of time. The U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals came to include ending …

dramatic revisions to price levels and real incomes across the world. The paper tries to understand these changes. Domestic …