(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to generate a time series … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

of labour is near- zero and productivity of land provides only subsistence. Poverty keeps consumption and savings low …

in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural … links to the market. Poverty cripples the very foundations of these possibilities. Therefore, under the prevailing …

I discuss how poverty decomposition methods relate to integral approximation, which ultimately is the foundation of … approaches to poverty decomposition. Recent developments in energy and pollutant decomposition offer some improved methods, but … ultimately, a further development of poverty decomposition should account for the basis in integral approximation. …

Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … normative significance to the poverty line is to allow the welfare measure to exhibit a discrete loss from poverty (DLP) at z …

, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to education and …