I consider two issues concerning how to monitor global poverty for the Millennium Development Goals, the selection of … poverty lines, and the data sources for monitoring poverty over time. I discuss the choice of a single international line …, converted using purchasing power parity exchange rates, versus the use of country-specific poverty lines. I note the …

around the world. They are the raw material in the debate on whether or not world growth reduces world poverty. This paper … discusses how the poverty estimates are constructed, and asks whether they can bear the burden placed on them. One specific … difficulty is the use of purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates, whose revision induces large changes in poverty estimates …

growth on poverty reduction. Growth does reduce poverty, but I find no evidence for a direct effect of structural adjustment … lending are counter-cyclical, but there is no evidence that the cyclical component of those policy variables affects poverty …

The recent COVID-19 pandemic and the expected increase in global crises threaten to push millions into poverty … multidimensional approach to poverty alleviation and prevention through livelihood and resilience-based programming …

More data on non-income dimensions of poverty are available than at any previous time in history. Alongside this … new possibilities to measure multidimensional poverty at the local, national and international level. Yet the fact that … when, how and why certain multidimensional poverty measures add value, sketches the limits of the contribution, and …