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 …

The World Bank’s global poverty estimates suffer from deep-seated problems arising from a single source, the lack of a … poverty line of $1.90 (2011 PPP) does not in any way resolve these problems. We present alternate estimates of global …, regional and national poverty based on reasoning as to what the Bank’s own method, consistently applied, would entail. These …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …