around a constant income distribution to illustrate why standard measures of poverty, built on the intuitions of unchanging …

analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …

poverty. They use the WIDER/UNDP World Income Inequality Database to investigate the links between growth, inequality and … trade liberalization for a sample of developing countries, and the more limited World Bank Global Poverty Monitoring … Database for an exploratory analysis of the influence of these variables on levels of poverty. The cross-section results …