This paper critically reviews the recent changes to the Global Poverty numbers generated by the World Bank in 2008. While they have little impact on observed poverty trends and while there are good reasons to believe that the previous numbers were on weak foundations, the new numbers on levels...

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...

Stephan Klasens Beitrag, im englischen Original in der Review of Income and Wealth erschienen, zeigt, dass die Ergebnisse einer monetären ausgabenbasierten Armutsanalyse für Südafrika teilweise deutlich und in armuts- und sozialpolitisch relevanter Weise von denen eines...