consumption and incomes grew in Ghana in the 1990s. Second, we ask how much of the rise in incomes was due to rises in the level … rose for the interpretation of changes in the poverty profile.Four household surveys are used to show changes in both … that the rise in income was ssociated with modest falls in the head count and poverty gap measures of poverty but with …

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 …

(if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … poverty solely and not with inequality is internally inconsistent. …

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

The purpose of this paper will be to study the evolution of inequality and poverty in Uruguay between 1989 and 1997. We … found that from 1991 there was an increase wage inequality in Uruguay and poverty changed little, decreased until 1993 and … little to poverty. …

Using PSID data for the years 1984 to 1999, we estimate the level and severity of asset poverty. Our results indicate … that the share of asset- poor households remained almost the same and the severity of poverty increased during this period … head, and homeownership, are important determinants of asset poverty. There seems to be a downward trend in the …

Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of … to detailed poverty analysis. We bridge this gap by constructing a CGE model that explicitly models all households from a … models. Urban poverty falls and rural poverty increases as initial tariffs were highest for agriculture. Impacts increase …