Element ends with two sections showing first how measures of inequality, poverty and welfare may be derived from such an order …

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains … constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median … of the income distribution but assumes that such a poverty line is determined exogenously. Finally we also propose a …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …

Globalisation is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies around the world are …, shifting power, and cultural uniformity. Globalization, Growth, and Poverty focuses on globalisation in terms of growing … primarily concerned with the effect that this growing integration has on economic growth and poverty reduction. It assesses the …

Introduction / Jacques Silber and Guanghua Wan -- 1. An Asian poverty line? issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- 2. A … poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R …. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Jacques Silber -- 3. Concepts and measurement of vulnerability to poverty and other …