The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world over 1981-2004. A clear trend … no sustained progress in reducing the number of poor, with rising poverty counts in some regions, notably Sub …-Saharan Africa. There are encouraging signs of progress in reducing the incidence of poverty in all regions after 2000, although it …

for poverty and social indicators. This linkage facilitates the analysis of the impact of various macroeconomic shocks on … a selected set of key social indicators. Poverty analysis is performed by the use of a poverty equation (which is … estimated using pooled data for a group of low-income countries) that links the incidence of poverty to inflation, the literacy …

This paper offers an axiomatic characterization of two classes of poverty measures that are sensitive to inequality of … opportunity, one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty … indices, based on a rank-dependent aggregation of type-specific poverty levels, is also introduced. In empirical analysis …

Multidimensional poverty measures can in theory make well-being comparisons that are less biased than those solely … based on monetary poverty. However, global multidimensional poverty measures suffer in practice from limitations that have … led to credible criticisms. This paper presents the case for multidimensional poverty measures, two criticisms against …

can be used as distribution sensitive poverty measures and as inequality measures, with the same simple intuitive units …

welfare indicators (from so-called "poverty maps"). They show that such indicators can be used both as explanatory variables …

Many developing countries assign local governments increasing responsibilities in fighting poverty. This requires local … governments and their partners have both an opportunity and a need to analyze key local bottlenecks for poverty reduction and …