(english) The aim of this paper is to realize an in-depth analysis of the growth and poverty interactions in Syria …-2004 period growth was not equitable at both national and regional levels. When the objective of halving poverty in 2015 is used … other characteristic of the Syrian growth and poverty performance is the widening of the gap between urban and rural areas …

such biases. As an empirical illustration we use the case of Burkina Faso and the growth incidence curve and poverty change …

Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were biased due to the neglect of some important methodological issues …. This led to the so-called ‘Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox’, i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost … constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national level, i …

(english) This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. Our method is based on … anti-poverty targeting performances. Post-transfer poverty can be substantially reduced with the new estimation method. In … terms of P2, the most popular axiomatically valid poverty indicator, moving from 1.30, the level reached under subsidies, to …

(English) How has poverty changed during the 1997-99 period, when the Peruvian economic performance deteriorated … on cross-section comparisons of poverty indicators. In this paper we extend the analysis first by examining the … robustness of these kind of comparisons by considering sampling errors and stochastic dominance and second, by analyzing poverty …

(english) Because of the lack of panel data there have been few studies on poverty dynamics in developing countries … objective is to identify the general and specific characteristics of chronic and transient poverty. We measure the importance of … poverty transitions, as well as the characteristics of the temporarily and the chronically poor, with respect to those of non …

. The results confirm the usefulness of this class of models, which permit the computation of poverty and inequality …

This report consists of a collection of essays on extreme poverty. The first part of the report deals with what it … means to live in extreme poverty, how to reach the very poor, through programs, and interventions, and how to make private … poverty, and human rights. …

Multiple Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and …