-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two …

(english) The aim of this paper is to realize an in-depth analysis of the growth and poverty interactions in Syria …-2004 period growth was not equitable at both national and regional levels. When the objective of halving poverty in 2015 is used … other characteristic of the Syrian growth and poverty performance is the widening of the gap between urban and rural areas …

a surge after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro … education, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty … reduction. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) gives priority to investment in education and health supply. In countries …

This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …

(English) How has poverty changed during the 1997-99 period, when the Peruvian economic performance deteriorated … on cross-section comparisons of poverty indicators. In this paper we extend the analysis first by examining the … robustness of these kind of comparisons by considering sampling errors and stochastic dominance and second, by analyzing poverty …

(english) Because of the lack of panel data there have been few studies on poverty dynamics in developing countries … objective is to identify the general and specific characteristics of chronic and transient poverty. We measure the importance of … poverty transitions, as well as the characteristics of the temporarily and the chronically poor, with respect to those of non …

no official definition of energy poverty (EP). The purpose of this study is to provide the reader with a set of … indicators to fill this gap. We present a range of poverty measures which estimate that between 5 and 20 per cent of households …

A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …