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 estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … 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 …

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 …

In this paper we develop an index for comparing the cost of doing business across several metropolitan areas in the U ….S. Such indices can be used as leading indicators of metropolitan economic growth. To create the index, we first identify …-based and pooled techniques to derive such an index. The index's variance decreases as the time horizon for which it is used …

and services comparable across areas, is a difficult task. In this paper we attempt to construct a cost-of-living index …

index. The governance index is computed as the weighted average of principal components of the standardized governance … therefore estimate the governance index on the basis of five indicators, such as crime rates, riots, industrial disputes and … strikes, Gini index, and debt-income ratio. Then we propose to explore whether the quality of governance determines …

, housing characteristics, life expectancy, infant mortality, and an overall index of human development. The main data set used …

make a valuable contribution to the analysis of poverty and are consulting them directly. This new participatory approach … has resulted in a broader definition of poverty and better-informed public policies that are more responsive to the needs … change the way national strategies to reduce poverty were developed and implemented. Previous strategies had met with little …