, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the … negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It … points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of …

poverty in terms of consumption (or income) is the overriding issue in poor countries, and (2) the only thing that really … matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of economic growth. The author takes (1) as given but questions (2 …, influences the extent of poverty today and the prospects for rapid poverty reduction in the future …

the priority given to absolute poverty in poor countries. The pattern of externalities also suggests that there will be … too much poverty and inequality in this economy, even judged solely from the point of view of aggregate efficiency. …

Survey 2016/17. This survey instrument will be used by the Government of Bangladesh to estimate reliable poverty and welfare …

registered a decline in poverty from 46 percent in 2010/11 to 39 percent in 2013/14. This declining poverty trend was broadly … national poverty numbers and corroborates the poverty rates published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda …. Underlying the paper?s conclusions is a detailed theoretical and analytical framework for making poverty comparisons over time …

Proxy-means testing is a popular method of poverty targeting with imperfect information. In a now widely-used version …, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Some methodological changes perform better, with a poverty-quantile method … as well, or almost as well, in reducing poverty. However, even with a budget sufficient to eliminate poverty with full …

collecting detailed consumption or income data for measuring poverty due to the required length of the interview and complexity … technique can produce reliable poverty estimates from only 10 to 20 simple questions. However, this approach may lead to biased …. By conducting the first survey experiment to examine potential differences in poverty estimates between interview modes …

inhabitants. The focus of this paper is on the role of poverty in the impact of floods on households, focusing on both direct …