-record data sets for multiple countries, in addition to providing summary statistics from those data, including poverty and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …

suggests that only the second came with a widespread belief that poverty could and should be eliminated. After the first … Poverty Enlightenment, references to “poverty†(as a percentage of all words) were on a trend decline until 1960, after … references to both general and specific policies relevant to poverty. Developing countries also became more prominent in the …

Rural poverty rankings of Indian states in 1990 were very different from 1960. This unevenness in progress allows us to … study the causes of poverty in a developing rural economy. We model the evolution of various poverty measures, using pooled … state-level data for the period 1957-91. Differences in trend rates of poverty reduction are attributed to differing growth …

The idea that developing countries face a trade off between poverty and inequality has had considerable influence on … systematic trade off between measures of absolute poverty and relative inequality. Indeed, falling inequality tends to come with … falling poverty incidence. And rising inequality appears more likely to be putting a brake on poverty reduction than to be …