This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three … innovations underlie this approach. The first is the estimation of a global demand system using a combination of micro-data from … household surveys and macro-data from the International Comparisons Project (ICP). Estimation is undertaken in a manner that …

This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three … innovations underlie this approach. The first is the estimation of a global demand system using a combination of micro-data from … household surveys and macro-data from the International Comparisons Project (ICP). Estimation is undertaken in a manner that …

In this paper, the world distribution of personal incomes (WDPI) is estimated using a global sample comprising country … bimodality disappeared in subsequent years. Inequality and poverty decreased in accordance with a three-phase pattern over the … period. Whether clones are scaled to GDP or HFCE matters when evaluating inequality and poverty levels, but not when …