Standard growth incidence curves describe how growth episodes impact on the overall income distribution. However … the percentiles of the income distribution in different ways. Therefore, standard growth incidence curves may misrepresent …

We apply several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to international and … and changes in well-being compared to a traditional reliance on income measures. Due to low inequality and moderate income …-being vis-a-vis non-transition countries. We also find a close correlation between income losses and inequality increases. While …

evidence against the existence of convergence in global poverty rates despite convergence in household mean income levels and … the close linkage between income growth and poverty reduction. We show that this finding is driven by a specification that … income growth and poverty dynamics in Central and Eastern European transition economies that started with low initial poverty …

income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health … nationally representative DHS since 1989, while nationally representative household income surveys only exist since 1997. In this … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to …

income levels and the link between income growth and poverty reduction. We show that heterogeneity in this link affects the …