generate a poverty trap.  The setting is rural China, and the data are from a national household survey for 2002, designed with … that poverty has an adverse effect on both the quality and quantity of education - so contributing to a poverty trap.  The … community income - so also contributing to a poverty trap.  The third strand brings no fewer than 17 estimated relationships …

The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing …-specific data are analyzed for the $1.25 and $2.50-level poverty headcount ratios using the most recent World Bank data.  The study … finds that on average an income growth has been the major driving force behind both the declines and increases in poverty …

In recent decades there have been considerable steps forward in terms of understanding poverty. This paper identifies … three `meta dimensions` of poverty, which relate to: (1) depth and severity; (2) breadth and multidimensionality; and (3 …) time and duration. The advances that have been made in terms of conceptualising, measuring and analysing poverty in each of …

This paper considers the practical problem of distributing a fixed budget for poverty alleviation to a population whose … poverty status is not directly observable. Some information on the relationship between poverty status and a number of … taking both the concavity of the social welfare function and the entire conditional distribution of poverty status into …

Most recent studies on poverty and inequality in developed countries focus on income. In contrast, this paper presents … trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in nine member countries of the European Union. During the 1980s, both … poverty and inequality increased in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium, while decreases in both poverty …

Standard poverty analysis makes statements about deprivation after the veil of uncertainty has been lifted. Nonetheless … `vulnerability to poverty` as the magnitude of the threat of poverty, measured ex-ante, before uncertainty is resolved. We describe …

, Uganda experienced gradual and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The benefits of growth, however, are not …

Arguments for cross-disciplinary research in development studies have been applied recently to work on poverty … collection and explain their relationship to the quest for crossdisciplinary research on poverty issues. Our conclusion is that … research on poverty and well-being, provided that their specific merits and demerits are evaluated in relation to the research …