"This paper provides an introduction to poverty-related data available in Sri Lanka and monetary measurements of … poverty carried out using this data. The lack of an official poverty line in Sri Lanka until June 2004 has over time generated … a number of poverty lines and corresponding poverty measures. While these poverty measures have provided a good base for …

Sri Lanka has made strong progress in reducing poverty and sharing prosperity among the less well-off in recent years …. The poverty rate using the World Bank's 3.20 Dollars poverty line (in 2011 purchasing power parity) declined from 16 ….2 percent in 2012/13 to 11 percent in 2016, a reduction that compares favorably to regional peers. Extreme poverty is almost …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …

In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses … measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new … insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction. …