Poverty – differently defined and measured – still remains one the crucial parts of the world development debate. It … an specific approach to poverty issues, treating low incomes as consequence – not a cause – of poverty. The main target … of the work is twofold. Firstly we aim to develop a new complex measure of relative poverty to set the most recent …

The World Bank's international poverty line has been a success in drawing the attention of policymakers and media to … the issue of poverty. This paper summarises the main critique in the literature and adds some additional insights …, pointing out the weak database for the estimation of the international poverty line. The author also shows how poverty outcomes …

inclusion on poverty and income inequality. The results provide evidence that high- and middle-high-income economies with high … financial inclusion have significantly lower poverty, while no such relation exists for middle-low and low-income economies. The … nonlinearities in the cross-country determinants and impacts of financial inclusion on poverty and income inequality across income …