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 … transfer programs, such as conditional cash transfer, unemployment insurance, old-age pension or similar programs that target …

, 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 …

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

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 …

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 …The starting point of this paper is given by country situations where trade liberalization is expected to be poverty …

liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization, measured by changes in tariff … revenues, is associated with increases in inequality in countries well-endowed in highly skilled workers and capital or with … is high raises inequality. Simulation results also suggest that relatively small changes in inequality as measured by …

accompanied by a reduction or an increase inequality is highly controversial. This paper brings new evidence on this issue in … and a new index of trade openness. Trade liberalization increases inequality in countries that relatively well-endowed in … suggested by Wood (1994). The results show that trade liberalization increases inequality in highly educated abundant countries …

This paper discusses the determinants of firewood consumption in a poor township in rural northern China, with a … poverty-environment hypothesis since household economic wealth is a significant and negative determinant of firewood …