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

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 …

likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … reduction in poverty as well as an improvement in the income distribution. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is …This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty …

income levels and distribution. When institutions deteriorates and inequalities increase, the incumbent undertakes … Gini coefficient and to increase average income, growth, and income of the poor. However, some non-linearites are detected …

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 …

relationship between the form of production function and the dynamics of income distribution is made explicit. We then use this … relationship to determine what production structure is simultaneously consistent with facts on growth and income inequality. Our …

This research develops a theory about the role of within-country income inequality leading to overtaking in economic …

the following policy recommendations with respect to poverty-reducing trade reforms in low-income developing countries … markets and manufactures imports are not associated with poverty alleviation in low- income developing countries. Finally, a …, to analyze potential trade-offs between the impact of trade liberalization on poverty via overall economic growth and …

empirically the poverty effects of exchange rate regimes, we estimate the distribution effects of different exchange rate …, to capture potential trade-offs between poverty effects through overall economic growth and distribution. To analyze this …-country changes of the income of the poor, we apply two econometric specifications, a growth equation and a system GMM estimation. We …