This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling … for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 European Countries for the period 1994 … very important policy implications, since if the former is the main cause of poverty it is of paramount importance to break …

Using longitudinal household data and an econometric model of conditional poverty transitions, this paper contributes … to the growing literature on poverty dynamics in Australian households. The results reveal that a range of household head … poor and slipping into poverty. These findings have important implications for Australian policymakers: tertiary education …

The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach … to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases … introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate the importance of vulnerability and transient poverty. Third, we …

We focus on the statics and dynamics of poverty in Spain using data from the first eight waves of the European … pattern of poverty changes noted by other authors for the early nineteen-nineties. After this period poverty reduces slightly …