Since the 1990s, poverty and the ways to reducing it have become a central paradigm in development economics, not only … theme of research in development economics, by poverty and its reduction, together with an expansion of the meanings of the … concept of poverty. The key points of the paper are that this shift represents a crucial turning point in the conceptual …

assist in the development of human and social capital and economic opportunities, the alleviation of poverty or the …

The paper explores different applications of the Shapley value for either inequality or poverty measures. We first … case of multiplicative poverty games for which indices are non additively decomposable in order to capture contributions of … sub-indices, which are multiplicatively connected with, as in the Sen Shorrocks-Thon poverty index. We finally show in the …

The starting point of this paper is given by country situations where trade liberalization is expected to be poverty … and inequality alleviating in the long run while inducing a short run increase in poverty or in inequality. The question … trade policies within a global policy framework so as to enhance growth and reduce poverty and inequality. The method …

This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into …

is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate … of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel … of data for 70 countries from 1981 to 1999, we do find that income instability results in a lower poverty reduction for a …