poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

inequality.  Finally, we examine global poverty, which is identified through the lower end of the global distribution. …

Arguments for cross-disciplinary research in development studies have been applied recently to work on poverty … collection and explain their relationship to the quest for crossdisciplinary research on poverty issues. Our conclusion is that … research on poverty and well-being, provided that their specific merits and demerits are evaluated in relation to the research …

averages of welfare change are presented. In Ghana is has been argued that poverty fell based on a consumption measure of … used as an opportunity welfare measure and that a decrease in poverty does not imply at all that most people in the economy …

generate a poverty trap.  The setting is rural China, and the data are from a national household survey for 2002, designed with … that poverty has an adverse effect on both the quality and quantity of education - so contributing to a poverty trap.  The … community income - so also contributing to a poverty trap.  The third strand brings no fewer than 17 estimated relationships …

The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …-specific data are analyzed for the $1.25 and $2.50-level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data.  The study … finds that on average an income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …

Most recent studies on poverty and inequality in developed countries focus on income. In contrast, this paper presents … trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in nine member countries of the European Union. During the 1980s, both … poverty and inequality increased in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium, while decreases in both poverty …

Standard poverty analysis makes statements about deprivation after the veil of uncertainty has been lifted. Nonetheless … `vulnerability to poverty` as the magnitude of the threat of poverty, measured ex-ante, before uncertainty is resolved. We describe …

Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of … to detailed poverty analysis. We bridge this gap by constructing a CGE model that explicitly models all households from a … models. Urban poverty falls and rural poverty increases as initial tariffs were highest for agriculture. Impacts increase …