Prevailing measures of relative poverty are unchanged when all incomes grow or contract by the...

We test for the existence of poverty traps and distribution-dependent growth using a nonlinear dynamic...

The “developing world’s middle class” is defined as those who live above the median poverty...

While the incidence of extreme poverty fell dramatically in China over 1980-2001, progress was uneven...

The “developing world’s middle class” is defined as those who live above the median poverty...

Banerjee and Duflo offer a coherent vision for an economics of poverty and anti-poverty policy....

Countries are increasingly being ranked by some new “mashup index of development,” defined as a...

National poverty lines vary greatly across the world, from under $1 per person per day...

Brazil, China, and India have seen falling poverty in their reform periods, but to varying...

The 20th Human Development Report introduced a new version of its famous Human Development Index...

While the 2008 financial crisis is global in nature, it is likely to have heterogeneous...

At the outset of China’s reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate...

In theory, the informational advantage of decentralizing the eligibility criteria for a federal antipoverty program...

The paper presents the first major update of the international “$1 a day” poverty line,...

Policy-oriented discussions often assume that “better targeting” implies larger impacts on poverty or more cost-effective...

Past approaches to correcting for unit nonresponse in sample surveys by re-weighting the data assume...

The paper re-visits the site of a large, World Bank-financed, rural development program in China,...

The chapter critically reviews the methods available for the ex-post counterfactual analysis of programs that...

We present new estimates of the extent of the developing world’s progress against poverty. By...

The paper examines the ways in which recent economic growth has been uneven in China...

Liberalizing key factor markets is a crucial step in the transition from a socialist control-economy...