inequality. Finally, we examine global poverty, which is identified through the lower end of the global distribution. …

I consider two issues concerning how to monitor global poverty for the Millennium Development Goals, the selection of … poverty lines, and the data sources for monitoring poverty over time. I discuss the choice of a single international line …, converted using purchasing power parity exchange rates, versus the use of country-specific poverty lines. I note the …

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 …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the …

-2021, but for many years to come. Sadly, it is a game-changer. The necessity to solve problems of poverty (energy poverty) and … hard-budget investment constraints. This article examines practical features of recent trends in energy, poverty, and …