large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

poverty and inequality in rural areas. While the poverty impacts of those programs are well documented in the literature less …High levels of inequality are a persistent feature of many rural areas in the developing world. Rural inequality is …'), while excluding the upper tail (i.e. ‘the rich') from the program, must lead to a reduction in inequality. In this paper we …

, circular and retroactive relationships with globalization, growth and poverty. The objective of this paper is to establish a … poverty. In this aim, the first section of paper presents critical evaluation of equity vs. equality debate, specifically …

The paper explores different applications of the Shapley value for either inequality or poverty measures. We first … investigate the problem of source decomposition of inequality measures, the so-called additive income sources inequality games … income sources inequality games provide dual results compared with Chantreuil and Trannoy's ones. We also investigate the …

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 …

We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children … an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and …

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 …

inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality … bootstrapping a commonly used index of inequality leads to inference that is not accurate even in very large samples, although …

Traditional poverty measures fail to indicate the degree of risk of becoming or remaining poor that households are … confronted to. They can therefore be misleading in the context of implementing poverty reduction policies. In this paper I … propose a method to estimate an index of ex ante vulnerability to poverty, defined as the probability of being poor in the …