It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets … also misses wider problems embedded in recent trends in the household income distribution. For example, inequality measures …

This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … equilibrium techniques are combined with micro econometric methodologies employing data from household surveys to examine the … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small …

We compare three approaches to linking macro models with representative households and micro household income data in … terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … different results in absolute terms, we show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty effects …

Models of household consumption used to estimate the relative needs of people living in different family types need to … take account of economies of household size, price-like substitution effects and the allocation of consumption among the … individuals of the household. No existing estimation method tackles all three of these issues in a simultaneous and transparent …