inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …

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 …

Cameroon. To address the endogeneity of foster-children supply, we estimate both decision within a recursive bivariate probit … in Cameroon, kinship rules involve children to be hosted by brothers of the male kin group, and more likely by the eldest …. Using data from the demographic and health survey of Cameroon (2004), a dataset uniquely suitable for our purpose since …

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 …

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 …