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 …

measurement in conventional (illegal) corruption indicators. It is found that manifestations of legal corruption may be more …

periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions … construct six aggregate governance indicators in each of the four periods. We present the point estimates of the dimensions of … governance as well as the margins of errors for each country for the four periods. The governance indicators reported here are an …

, looking at consumption and credit indicators for regions disaggregated below the state level also suggests that inequality …

measured through human development and indicators of the state of health of urban ecosystems, public services, gender equality …, and labour markets, while social capital is measured through synthetic indicators representing strong family ties, weak … capital and development indicators. …

measured through human development and indicators of the state of health of urban ecosystems, public services, gender equality …, and labour markets, while social capital is measured through synthetic indicators representing strong family ties, weak … capital and development indicators. …

measured through human development and indicators of the state of health of urban ecosystems, public services, gender equality …, and labour markets, while social capital is measured through synthetic indicators representing strong family ties, weak … capital and development indicators. …

This paper deals with poverty, health, education and human deprivation among Indian States. Human development evaluates … poverty, health, education lead the poor to indulge in the vicious circle. Uplifting the poor from these deprivations is … imperative for overall development. This paper proposes a new formula to analyse human deprivation by the help of poverty line …

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 …

This paper investigates how estimates of the extent and trend of income poverty in China between 1990 and 2001 vary as … a result of alternative plausible assumptions concerning key parameters that influence the poverty line and estimated … within a reasonable range, a remarkable reduction in consumption poverty occurred in China during the 1990s. However …