remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …

Poverty lines are typically higher in richer countries, and lower in poorer ones, reflecting the relative nature of … national assessments of who is considered poor. In many high-income countries, poverty lines are explicitly relative, set as a … share of mean or median income. Despite systematic variation in how countries define poverty, global poverty counts are …

This study carries out a thorough investigation of the potential sources of mismatch in poverty and inequality levels … the following. First, the difference in poverty levels between the Household Budget Survey and the National Panel Survey … is essentially explained by the differences in the methods of estimating the poverty line. Second, the discrepancy in …

typically limited. That prevents administering the lengthy household consumption expenditure surveys used for measuring poverty …. This paper presents a new approach to obtain unbiased estimates of poverty when the time to conduct interviews is a binding …, the approach is demonstrated to yield reliable estimates of per capita consumption and poverty using data from a regular …

Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced …. The large gap between the government's expenditures and revenues helps explain the positive outcomes on poverty and …

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 …

The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on demographic and … in 92 countries shows that the drivers of poverty eradication differ across countries. Two representative scenarios are … selected from these hundreds. One scenario is optimistic regarding poverty and is labeled ?prosperity;? the other scenario is …

During the early 2000s, Moldova experienced strong economic growth and poverty and inequality reductions. This paper … aims at uncovering the patterns behind these poverty trends by looking at economic mobility and its associated factors in … Moldova. The findings build on the synthetic panel approach and allow for a non-anonymous view of the process of poverty …