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 in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …

groups than the survey data suggest, through higher program receipt and greater poverty reduction. These biases in survey …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

their own vulnerability and a measure of the justice system's expansive reach in society. Estimating the size of this … vulnerability. Finally, we document substantial geographic variation in exposure, which we leverage in a movers design to estimate …

crises' impact on real per capita GDP, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty headcounts, and calorie supply per capita … percent below that of non-defaulting peers after a decade. Based on the trajectory of the health, nutrition, and poverty …

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … inequality. After summarizing both design-based and quantitative work in this area, we propose directions for future work. Our …