This paper aims at characterizing poverty and vulnerability in Haiti based on a unique survey conducted in 2007 in … particular health-related shocks, have larger impact on vulnerability to poverty than covariate shocks. These results are in line …

The conflict between the income based and nutrition based estimates of poverty is a widely debated issue in economic … literature. This paper, using a two commodity framework, attempts to show that in presence of inequality, a status driven utility … function can reconcile the conflict between the two measures of poverty. In addition, a simple general equilibrium model using …

urban inequality, a reduction in urban poverty, and a lower level of overall inclusive growth of a city. …

An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the impact of international remittances on poverty and income … inequality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In carrying out the study, 34 SSA countries for which relevant data are available …, between 1980 and 2009, were sampled for the poverty analysis whilst a sample size of 36 was used in the remittances …

This article investigates the relationships among economic growth, income distribution and poverty in Brazil during the … variations in the poverty indicators and the main components that answer for this variation - decomposition model;another that … simulates the effects of the variation of the income and the concentration indicators on the poverty level - model of elasticity …

in alleviating poverty, while saving at very low rates and neglecting investment in health and education. Such … consumption patterns seem to be related to the persistence of poverty. We offer an explanation for this observation, based on a … can help explain the persistence of poverty. …

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the …, inequality will then be associated with less, rather than more, redistributive taxation. Furthermore, if the poor are liquidity … constrained then the positive association between inequality and fiscal conservatism will increase the persistence in the dynamics …

which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure … some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that …) political liberalization has a disequalizing effect and; (3) economic freedom has a positive (negative) effect on inequality …

is an anti-poverty line. The proposed affluence line is derived here based on the principle of transfer of resources of …