We evaluate the claim that world consumption poverty has fallen during the 1990s in light of alternative assumptions … about the extent of initial poverty and the rate of subsequent poverty reduction in China, India, and the rest of the … developing world. We assess the extent of poverty using two indicators: the aggregate poverty headcount and the poverty headcount …

This paper is complementary to my earlier paper on Public Intervention and Poverty Alleviation: Declining Incidence of … Rural Poverty in Kerala (published in 1995). The objective of this paper is to go beyond the notion of income-poverty and …. Emphasis has been given to public action by which Kerala has achieved considerable reduction in poverty. Here I have identified …

characterized by increasing income inequality and poverty. An axiomatically modified Datt-Ravallion decomposition, that separates … changes in poverty rates into mean and inequality components, will illustrate how each of them has contributed to those …

This paper identifies a multiplicative decomposition for the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty indices as a product of the … three components which should be involved in every poverty index: the incidence of poverty, measured by the headcount ratio …, the intensity of poverty, measured by the aggregate income gap ratio and the inequality among the poor measured by an …