On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

suggests that only the second came with a widespread belief that poverty could and should be eliminated. After the first … Poverty Enlightenment, references to “poverty†(as a percentage of all words) were on a trend decline until 1960, after … references to both general and specific policies relevant to poverty. Developing countries also became more prominent in the …

addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …-record data sets for multiple countries, in addition to providing summary statistics from those data, including poverty and … inequality measures. LIS is a well-managed and undeniably important global public institution for research on inequality and …

On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

progress is being made against poverty and inequality in the current period of “globalization.” This paper provides a non … evidence suggests that, if the rate of progress against absolute poverty in the developing world in the 1990s is maintained …, then the Millennium Development Goal of halving the 1990 aggregate poverty rate by 2015 will be achieved on time in the …