This Paper explores the implications of the recent sharp rise in US wage inequality for welfare and the cross … markets can account for these trends in cross-sectional US data. We also investigate the welfare costs of the rise in wage in …

poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory …

The paper develops a new approach to measuring the impact of government cash transfers on poverty alleviation that … of changes in government cash benefits on poverty rates in Russia during 1994 to 1998. The methodological contribution is … changes in the expenditure distribution excluding cash transfers on movements in poverty rates. At least 30% of the rise in …

In this paper we re-examine poverty among working class households in inter-war London using the newly computerized …–31. First, we examine how the use of different poverty lines affects the number of households found to be in poverty. We then … analyse the effects of the inter-war social security system in relieving poverty. Finally, we estimate what difference it …

household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade-to-poverty …This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of …

resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between …, only limited attention has been directed towards addressing how sharing assumptions can be incorporated into poverty … female adults and between adults and children affects the incidence and intensity of poverty. The method is consistent with …