poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases … poverty in 4 countries using a US$1.25/day PPP poverty line, in 8 countries using a US$2.50/day line, and in 15 countries …

not always true for poverty. In Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana, Nicaragua, and Guatemala the extreme poverty headcount ratio is …

Periods of rapid economic growth in developing countries have been well studied in terms of poverty and income …

Global eradication of extreme poverty requires absolute convergence of poverty rates worldwide towards zero. Using data … than absolute convergence, we find club convergence: countries’ long-run poverty rates cluster into three or four … convergence clubs, depending on the specific poverty measure considered. The club-based country classification that results is …

This chapter discusses trends in U.S. poverty since 1964 and the factors behind those trends. Between 1965 and 1970 the … official poverty rate fell significantly because market poverty declined and the antipoverty impact of transfers improved …. After 1970 market poverty stopped declining but since the antipoverty impact of transfers improved for several more years …

predictor of higher poverty incidence and poverty severity on average for all countries. Federalism does not predict lower … poverty incidence and severity in developing countries. Thus for a developing economy such as the Philippines, Federalism … appears to be a leap from the frying pan into the fire of even greater income inequality and poverty incidence. …

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …