Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of proportionate convergence in global poverty rates despite convergence in household mean … income levels and the link between income growth and poverty reduction. We show that heterogeneity in this link affects the …

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

of poverty has neglected the non-income dimensions. After an examination of prominent views on the linkages between … economic growth, inequality, and poverty reduction this paper discusses the proper definition and measurement of pro … non-income dimensions of poverty and offers some important new insights about differences in the evolution of both poverty …

the contributions to this volume. First, the linkages between growth, inequality, and poverty in Latin America need …, measuring and addressing poverty remains a critical research area, in particular non-monetary including subjective indicators of … well-being often tell a different story that needs to be considered when analyzing poverty trends and determinants. Lastly …