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 …

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. …

, fertility, and household composition, are analysed. The effects of the educational expansion on the growth of household incomes …, their distribution and poverty depend very crucially on the hypothesis made on the evolution of returns to education and …

demands exceeded the carrying capacity of household land whose quality also diminished resulting in steep decline in food …