This paper assesses the current state of evidence on how international trade shapes inequality and poverty through its …

the late 1970s. In contrast, bottom income quantiles and poverty rates have converged across areas in recent decades …

The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also … acknowledge a deep identification problem when the latent norms defining poverty vary systematically across countries. Welfare … model of relative-income comparisons calibrated to data on national poverty lines. Both bounds indicate falling global …

In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals …

rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient … poverty point to the policy conclusion that poverty may be a less serious social problem than it appears in annual data due to …

childhood (family income and poverty measures, family characteristics including parental education, and child characteristics …