-relative poverty in the developing world has been falling since the 1990s, but more slowly for the relative measure. While the number … measures of relative poverty. The paper argues instead for using a weakly-relative measure as the upper-bound complement to the … lower-bound provided by a standard absolute measure. New estimates of global poverty are presented, drawing on 850 household …

yield a nationalistic measure whereby global inequality is average within-country inequality, which is rising. Other …

poverty incidence, but more slowly for the upper bound. Either way, the developing world has a higher poverty incidence but is … making more progress against poverty than the developed world …

The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … value of the floor, allowing for transient effects and measurement errors in survey data. On using all suitable and … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …