of exogenous shocks on poverty and inequality in a context characterized by out-of-equilibrium, poorly-adjusting markets … and poverty and inequality, the elimination of food security interventions (such as food stamp schemes) determines an … likely reduce absolute poverty show undesirable distributive biases (both on overall inequality and on rural households vis …

inequality and widening gaps between rich and poor, and urban and rural. It is therefore it is important to examine the … interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This paper develops a simple model to establish that the change in income …, inequality and growth bear a non-linear relationship: for low values of inequality, economic growth rate is an inverted U …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity—aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory—to social welfare measurement. We suggest a … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … rents-induced inequality. …

those countries. Economic growth during 1995-2006 is regressed against poverty, inequality and human development variables …. The main findings are that growth did not reduce poverty and that income inequality, measured as a reduction of Gini … income inequality. However, this result does not identify a “U-shaped” Kuznets curve because even after a consistent period …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …