points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of …, this paper reviews the evidence on levels and recent trends in global poverty and income inequality. It documents the … negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It …

points to the dominant role of Asia in accounting for the bulk of the world's poverty reduction since 1981. The evolution of … negative correlations between both poverty and inequality indices, on the one hand, and mean income per capita on the other. It … and between countries. The statistical relationships between growth, inequality and poverty are discussed, as is the …

true income per capita and $1-a-day poverty rates for the developing world and its regions. We obtain poverty estimates … survey-based poverty literature more generally. …

inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth that can be used to compute these measures from GB2 parameter estimates. An application …

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …