"The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line …-fifths came from Asia, and half from China. Most of the new entrants remained fairly close to poverty, with incomes now bunched up …

"Prevailing measures of relative poverty put an implausibly high weight on relative deprivation, such that measured … poverty does not fall when all incomes grow at the same rate. This stems from the (implicit) assumption in past measures that … roles of certain private expenditures in poor settings and with data on national poverty lines. The authors propose a new …

dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … liberalization of agriculture and food could increase global extreme poverty (US …

growth. Traditionally, applied country-specific poverty and growth analyses have been done separately. This paper describes …

explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during … progress. Poverty estimates correlate well with region-level data on changes in agricultural wage rates. Agricultural labor … preceding rounds. The implication for poverty is not immediately clear - the poor may be pushed into low-return casual non …

"Household surveys have long been used to estimate poverty and inequality trends, as well as trends in education and …

assessment of the direct and indirect impacts of higher prices on global poverty using a representative sample of 63 to 93 … that the implied increase in the extreme poverty headcount at the global level is 1.7 percentage points, with significant …) could raise global poverty in 2010 by 0.6 percentage points at the extreme poverty line and 0.9 percentage points at the …