The World Bank's international poverty line has been a success in drawing the attention of policymakers and media to …, pointing out the weak database for the estimation of the international poverty line. The author also shows how poverty outcomes … at the country level diverge when the international and respective national poverty lines are applied. For poorer …

countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … international development and agreed upon in the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 10. Using data from 164 …

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 …

-government poverty rates climb by three to four percentage points once we account for households’ medical expenses. We find that …

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 …