This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply … statistical learning to large-scale country-level data obtained from the World Development Indicators and Google Earth Engine. The … methods are evaluated by withholding measured poverty rates and determining how accurately the methods predict the held …

progress is being made against poverty and inequality in the current period of quot;globalization.quot; Ravallion provides a … evidence suggests that if the rate of progress against absolute poverty in the developing world in the 1990s is maintained …-oriented debates on globalization and pro-poor growth.This paper - a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group - is part …

standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world …The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines … falling incidence of poverty globally over the last 30 years. This is mainly due to lower absolute poverty counts in the …

parallel developments in the World Bank's measurement of global poverty that were stimulated by the report of the Commission on … pages. It remains unfinished yet it is a masterly guide to the nuances of poverty measurement and an invaluable source for …A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press …

In this paper, the world distribution of personal incomes (WDPI) is estimated using a global sample comprising country … bimodality disappeared in subsequent years. Inequality and poverty decreased in accordance with a three-phase pattern over the … period. Whether clones are scaled to GDP or HFCE matters when evaluating inequality and poverty levels, but not when …

Multidimensional poverty measures can in theory make well-being comparisons that are less biased than those solely … based on monetary poverty. However, global multidimensional poverty measures suffer in practice from limitations that have … led to credible criticisms. This paper presents the case for multidimensional poverty measures, two criticisms against …