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 …

The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

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 …

Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … proposed method offers poverty estimates based on administrative data that are mostly statistically insignificantly different …

; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and …I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades … the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant - my perspectives are …