Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

This paper deals with the causes and consequences of inequality and poverty in the countries east of the new frontiers … of the European Union, mainly with the CIS countries. Poverty and inequalities in the former socialist countries were … of income and wealth. The new structural sources of poverty and inequalities have often been more extreme. Some CIS …

Three main changes in thinking about poverty have gained increasing currency over the past decade. First, the concept … of poverty has broadened, with increasing attention to issues of vulnerability, inequality and human rights. Second, the … capital. Third, the causal structure has deepened to focus on flows of individuals into and out of poverty, rather than on …

The official measure to analyse poverty in Germany is the at-risk-of-poverty rate, defined as 60 per cent of the median … that the issue of poverty in Germany generates in the minds of both the government and the public. Especially since it … multidimensional poverty index for Germany that is based on the capability approach. It also introduces a multidimensional happiness …

According to Sen (1976), any reasonable poverty index ought to be sensitive to inequality. In a multidimensional … framework, inequality between poverty dimensions is traditionally treated as association sensitivity. Such an approach, however … the new property, it then proceeds to derive a new class of inequality-sensitive poverty measures whose advantages are …

poverty reduction tool. It argues that while microfinance has developed some innovative management and business strategies …, its impact on poverty reduction remains in doubt. Microfinance, however, certainly plays an important role in providing … self-esteem. However, for any significant dent on poverty, the focus of public policy should be on growth-oriented and …

This paper analyses the nature and causes of the patterns of inequality and poverty in India. Since the economic … persistent poverty. The macroeconomic policies possibly responsible for these trends include—fiscal tightening, regressive tax …

on the rate of change in poverty. It is based on the findings of 16 country case studies recently carried out by the … the rate of poverty reduction has invariably been lower than what it potentially should have been and the main reason for …