global poverty measurement framework. Focusing primarily on 16 Sub-Saharan African countries, the analysis reveals that … addressing poverty in both urban and rural areas. This study aims to tackle this issue by comparing subnational poverty … poverty rates tend to be lower in densely populated urban areas. However, the findings also highlight that urban areas have a …

Poverty is typically measured in different ways in developing and advanced countries. The majority of developing … countries measure poverty in absolute terms, using a poverty line determined by the monetary cost of a predetermined basket of … goods. In contrast, most analyses of poverty in advanced countries, including the majority of OECD countries and Eurostat …

The authors report new estimates of measures of absolute poverty for the developing world over 1981-2004. A clear trend … no sustained progress in reducing the number of poor, with rising poverty counts in some regions, notably Sub …-Saharan Africa. There are encouraging signs of progress in reducing the incidence of poverty in all regions after 2000, although it …

We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the … measurement and identification difficulties, and despite conflicting evidence on some issues, empirical work based on country case …

The paper discusses the main issues related to negative and zero incomes that are relevant for the measurement of … poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … non-positive incomes, and explains how non-positive incomes and alternative correction methods impact the measurement of …