This paper explores trends in inequality and poverty using both market and after-tax and transfer income in the period … during and after the Great Recession (through 2011). Using market income (or wages), inequality and poverty rose sharply … poverty increase was muted. Tax and transfer policies lowered inequality and poverty, but those policies were not equal across …

Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic condition of a household also … depends on its real and financial asset holdings. This paper investigates measures of poverty that rely on indicators of … household net worth. We review and assess two main approaches followed in the literature: income-net worth measures and asset-poverty …

provide a comprehensive review of a particular area of research. We examine the literature on post-1970 trends in poverty and …, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall income inequality …

and manage the risks that households face as part of a coherent long-term strategy to reduce poverty and promote social … equity. The articles included in this book were presented at the conference, "Social Protection and Poverty," held at the …

and manage the risks that households face as part of a coherent long-term strategy to reduce poverty and promote social … equity. The articles included in this book were presented at the conference, "Social Protection and Poverty," held at the …

a low poverty rate. We compare the effectiveness of United States antipoverty policies to that of similar polices … learned about antipoverty policy by American voters and policymakers. The United States has one of the highest poverty rates … of all the countries participating in the LIS, whether poverty is measured using an absolute or a relative standard for …