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 …

Multidimensional poverty measures give rise to a host of statistical hypotheses which are of interest to applied … minimum P-value methodology of Bennett (2010). When applied to study the relative state of poverty among Hindus and Muslims in …

different parts of a country, especially between urban and rural areas. Current global poverty measurement lacks an adjustment …Measuring global poverty requires two types of spatial price adjustments: inter-country price adjustment based on the … avoid poverty estimation bias, largely because many countries collected 2011 ICP price information only in urban areas. Data …