The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also … acknowledge a deep identification problem when the latent norms defining poverty vary systematically across countries. Welfare … model of relative-income comparisons calibrated to data on national poverty lines. Both bounds indicate falling global …

poverty. The comprehensive assessment for Sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …

empirically examines whether growth of India's secondary towns or big cities mattered more to recent rural poverty reduction …-effects model of poverty measures for rural India, calibrated to a panel of 59 regions observed four times over 1993-2012. The … expansion of lit area had greater effect on the rural poverty measures than did intensive margin growth in the brightness of …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …

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 …