This paper critically reviews the recent changes to the Global Poverty numbers generated by the World Bank in 2008 … numbers were on weak foundations, the new numbers on levels of poverty in the developing world create new uncertainties und … cannot be very certain about levels of absolute poverty in the world and that the current method for generating these …

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 …

.e. percentage point) changes in FGT poverty measures assuming a log-normal income distribution, which we argue to be a conceptually … superior and more policy-relevant measure than the much used "regular" growth elasticity of poverty reduction. We also test the … empirical relationship of these semi-elasticities of growth and distributional change on poverty and find them to explain actual …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of poverty convergence in aggregate data despite the conditional convergence of per capita … income levels and the close linkage between growth and poverty reduction in standard neoclassic growth theory and associated …

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 …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents … 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 …

Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-523; 2012) presents … evidence against the existence of poverty convergence in aggregate data despite the conditional convergence of per capita … income levels and the close linkage between growth and poverty reduction in standard neoclassic growth theory and associated …

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …