We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 …The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

The World Bank's international poverty line has been a success in drawing the attention of policymakers and media to … global standard of extreme poverty. These issues gain momentum as the World Bank recently published new (but not improved … the issue of poverty. This paper summarises the main critique in the literature and adds some additional insights …

inclusion on poverty and income inequality. The results provide evidence that high- and middle-high-income economies with high … financial inclusion have significantly lower poverty, while no such relation exists for middle-low and low-income economies. The … nonlinearities in the cross-country determinants and impacts of financial inclusion on poverty and income inequality across income …

national currencies using either the 2005 or 2011 level; in the medium term, we argue for global poverty measurement based on … internationally coordinated national poverty measurement. … poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …