This paper presents a methodology to measure vulnerability to asset-poverty. Using repeated cross-section data, age … show that expected asset-poverty is a reliable proxy for expected consumption-poverty. Applying the methodology to nine …

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 hypothesis is that Pareto and Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency have an aspect of sustainability in relation to inequality …. The analysis finds efficient situations reached increasing inequality as diminishing in the long term effective demand in …

interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER’s World Income Inequality Database. In order to … better understand the trends, global interpersonal inequality is decomposed into within-country and between …-country inequality. The paper illustrates that the relationship between global interpersonal inequality and these constituent components …

This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality … and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz Curves to represent inequality is also provided. It highlights …

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 …