one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …

trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality-poverty … is scrutinized, link by link. The paper then moves on to examine other channels in the globalization-poverty nexus that …

This paper analyses regional data on inequality and poverty in Russia during 1994-2000 using published series from the … an internationally high level. Based on these two findings, the paper projects dynamics of inequality and poverty in … will become virtually free of poverty. Finally, the paper relates fluctuations in inequality within regions to a set of …

) Growth, inequality and poverty. …The objective of this paper is to review a number of issues related to poverty, while taking stock of the ongoing … research. Most of the remaining unresolved issues in poverty analysis are related directly or indirectly to the dynamics of …

conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual issues considered are the space in which gender inequality in well … measures of well-being by the gender inequality in well-being, whether gender equality in every indicator is necessarily the … goal, how to assess gender inequality that is apparently desired by males and females, and what role indicators of agency …

Absolute poverty lines are often derived from the cost of obtaining sufficient calories. Where staples vary across … regions, such poverty lines may differ depending on whether they are set using national or regional food baskets. Regional … poverty lines are open to the objection that they may be contaminated by income effects. This paper explores this issue by …

unwarranted. First, sustained migratory flows may be associated with an equally large flow of remittances. Second, migrants may …, and remittances. It finds little support for the revisionist approach. First, a higher skilled content of migration is … found to be associated with a lower flow of remittances. Second, there is little evidence suggesting that raising the skill …

Remittances, after foreign direct investment, are currently the most important source of external finance to developing … countries. Remittances surpass foreign aid, and tend to be more stable than such volatile capital flows as portfolio investment … and international bank credit. Remittances are also an international redistribution from low-income migrants to their …