represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators. Income is more highly concentrated than … expenditure in India, especially at the top of the distribution. Both types of inequality are similar in China, although … and levels between the two wellbeing distributions. As a result, expenditure inequality is higher in China than in India …

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …We introduce two separate datasets - the Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset - containing an … unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark …

This paper contributes to the literature by reviewing levels, trends, and structure of inequality since the early 1990s … the complexity of the underlying drivers of inequality changes. While the primary focus is on examining trends based on … standard economic indicators of income/consumption and wealth, the paper briefly reviews distributions of selected non …

We broadly review the challenges encountered and choices made in the national assessments of consumption poverty using …

consumption after severe health shocks, as well as the contribution of public health insurance in the form of social security and … are associated with large declines in non-medical consumption. Social security seems to provide protection against both … consumption against accidents. This suggests that income losses associated with disability shocks, for which the programme does …

The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middleincome countries has made it … collecting household consumption data, which is rarely done by phone. To test the feasibility of collecting consumption data over …-person interviews. In the phone survey, average per capita consumption was 23 per cent lower than in the in-person survey, and the …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …

agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …

around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as … agriculture in which most of the poor work and live. The household survey data documents a limited reduction in consumption …

consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this period, showing improvements in almost all indicators over this … period. At the same time, inequality has risen over the past 20 years and spatial inequality, in both monetary and non …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …