consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. … world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in PPP units of monthly real consumption and income for every …

consumption distribution, poverty, and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. … unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark …

This paper makes new estimates of the cost of ending poverty and the global distribution of both the cost and poverty … itself. First, the paper discusses definitions of 'ending' poverty, arguing that there is an overemphasis (e.g. SDG 1) on the … extreme poverty line which is insufficient for multiple reasons. Second, we turn to the question of the location of global …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the …

the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … whether this implies the end of the historical two-cluster world rather than merely a transition as some people move from the … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … validation tests, is superior to proxying welfare with asset ownership in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on …

Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …

We use Arndt and Simler's utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in … 2000, 2005, and 2011. Poverty reduction was steady but uneven, with gains greatest in urban areas in the first half of the … pattern of persistent improvements, though the large declines in poverty are not entirely supported by the magnitudes of …

We use Arndt and Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in … national poverty rising from 56.3 per cent in 2001 to 59.6 per cent in 2005, and to 61.4 per cent in 2010, are not necessarily … indicative of a trend of persistently rising poverty. Complementary data indicate that in the time periods between the shocks …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … better formulate policies of fostering inclusive growth. Economic growth itself is an important source of welfare …