.S. government poverty statistics to create a new time series of Sen indices of poverty. The effects of growth and other determinants … of aggregate poverty are investigated over the period 1961-1996. The results indicate that economic growth affects the … Sen index and official poverty headcounts in essentially the same manner across time. The long economic expansion …

This paper is one of three country studies of successful anti-poverty measures during upper middle-income levels, the … other two being Japan and the Republic of Korea. Though the US did not advance an explicit anti-poverty agenda until the … earnings all increased during 1920-1960. Poverty fell by two-thirds to around 22 percent as the mean income rose and income …