paper is to deliver a fresh assessment of the evolution of inequality and poverty across OECD countries over the last … explores whether contracting inequalities coexist with increasing poverty. The paper adds to previous studies by introducing …

that is not poor but that still faces significant risk of falling back into poverty. This paper attempts to fill this gap … by proposing vulnerability lines that can be straightforwardly estimated with panel or cross-sectional household survey … data, in rich- and poor-country settings. These vulnerability lines offer a means to broaden traditional poverty analysis …

Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this …, and 14% of those in the middle-class, experience poverty at least once over a ten-year period. Furthermore, chronic … poverty remains widespread (representing 91% and 50% of extreme and moderate poverty respectively). Differences between rural …